Tesla Inc. won its case against Martin Tripp, its ex-worker who was charged for hacking the company’s data and giving the information to third parties, Reuters reported.
According to the court documents, "Tripp authored hacking software and placed it onto the computer systems of three other individuals at the company so that confidential Tesla data could be persistently exported off its network from these other systems to unknown third parties."
In its lawsuit, Tesla outlined five claims for relief, including violations described in the Defend Trade Secrets Act, the Nevada Uniform Trade Secrets Act, and the Nevada Computer Crimes Law.
The U.S. district court of Nevada said in its ruling that it will grant Tesla’s motions to seal “because compelling reasons support them, and they are unopposed.”
The court also denied Tripp’s motion for leave to file an additional reply citing it as “unnecessary.”
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Eva Fox joined Tesmanian in 2019 to cover breaking news as an automotive journalist. The main topics that she covers are clean energy and electric vehicles. As a journalist, Eva is specialized in Tesla and topics related to the work and development of the company.
