Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov has pleaded guilty to recruiting a Tesla employee to plant malware to steal data from Tesla’s network. The 27-year-old told the Tesla employee he would be paid $1,000,000 worth of bitcoins after the malware got deployed on the company’s network, court documents say. The employee would have also had to provide info on the malware’s development process to help with the malware. The defendant was arrested in August 2020 after he received a call from an FBI agent and hurried to leave the US to avoid getting caught.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russian-pleads-guilty-to-tesla-hacking-and-extortion-attempt/