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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Report: ‘massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints

The data protection office in Brandenburg, which is home to Tesla’s European gigafactory, described the data leak as ‘massive’.
The data protection office in Brandenburg, which is home to Tesla’s European gigafactory, described the data leak as ‘massive’. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Tesla has failed to adequately protect data from customers, employees and business partners and has received thousands of customer complaints regarding the carmaker’s driver assistance system, Germany’s Handelsblatt has reported, citing 100 gigabytes of confidential data leaked by a whistleblower.

The Handelsblatt report said customer data could be found “in abundance” in a data set labelled “Tesla Files”.

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