Elon. What the hell?
From Business Insider:
- Some former members of a notorious security team at Uber are now allegedly employed by Tesla.
- They include Nick Gicinto, who reportedly is the new head of security at Tesla.
- At Uber, Gicinto allegedly led a team of former CIA case officers who hacked into rivals' computers and secretly recorded their conversations.
- At Tesla, Gicinto and his team allegedly spied on employees and hushed up a drug-trafficking investigation.
- The allegations about the Uber team working at Tesla were made by Karl Hansen, a former Tesla employee who has filed a whistleblower tip with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Several" employees in Tesla's security department — including the company's head of security — were previously a part of a similar team at Uber that allegedly stole data from rivals, hacked into their computer systems, and recorded their private conversations, according to a former employee of the electric-vehicle company who filed a whistleblower tip earlier this month with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
At Tesla, those employees were part of a group that spied on employees' personal cell-phone communications and hid from shareholders a theft of raw materials and a drug trafficking ring at the company's battery factory in Nevada, Karl Hansen, a former member of Tesla's security team, alleged in the tip, according to a statement put out Thursday by his lawyer.
"The security personnel accused of engaging in these tactics at Uber were hired by Tesla this year despite the revelation of a purported investigation by the US Attorney's Office in San Francisco ... [into] the actions related to the Uber security team," Meissner Associates, the law firm representing Hansen, said in the statement....MORE
