Tesla sues ex-employee who stole information for $167 million in damages

Tesla sues ex-employee who stole data for $167 meg in damages

The lawsuit betwixt Martin Tripp and Tesla is really starting to heat upwards

During the summer an ex-Tesla employee named Martin Tripp was defendant of and sued for sabotaging the company's product line equally well equally leaking its secrets. Now, Tripp's being sued for $167 million in damages.

In retaliation to the initial lawsuit, Tripp accused Tesla and Musk of skirting safety procedures in the Nevada Gigafactory and by shipping Model 3s with faulty batteries. In addition to this, Tripp is asking to depose Musk and roughly ten other Tesla employees.

The electrical motorcar company is asking Tripp to pay for the amercement to the stock prices that were allegedly caused by the negative data he shared with the printing regarding Tesla effectually the time of the first lawsuit, reads a written report from CNBC.

Tripp was sued initially on June 20th for writing software to hack Tesla'southward manufacturing operating organization and transferring several gigabytes of data to outside parties. The lawsuit has been ongoing since and then.

Tripp'due south team is request to hold depositions with Musk and roughly ten other Tesla employees, but the EV manufacturer is attempting to limit his access to Musk and lower the number of dispositions that information technology agrees to, according to CNBC

Tripp's lawyer said to CNBC via email that the new lawsuit against Tripp is "cool." Further, he says "in this instance, where Mr. Tripp is beingness sued for more than than $167,000,000 and has asserted counterclaims against Tesla, more than x depositions is certainly reasonable and appropriate."

Source: CNBC