Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla TSLA -4.7% confirmed in a tweet that the company dealt with a potentially harmful attack planned by Russian National to install ransomware software on Tesla’s computer network. The ransomware attack would have encrypted Tesla’s files exposing them to the hacker’s servers. However, the Tesla employee notified the $1 million bitcoin bribe to authorities leading the FBI to arrest Russian hacker Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov on August 22 in LA. Kriochkov now faces up to 5 years in prison for his scheme.
