Tesla Motors had their website and Twitter accounts hijacked by individuals looking to play a joke. Attackers used their access to deface the company’s website and spam a computer repair shop in Illinois. The “free car” promotion was posted to the hijacked @TeslaMotors account and the account used by Elon Musk, the company CEO. In 2012, attackers targeted AT&T in order to compromise the Gmail account of CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince. The Tesla incident highlights a complicated problem for businesses.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2915963/tesla-attack-started-with-a-single-phone-call.html