A view shows the Tesla logo on the hood of a car in Oslo, Norway November 10, 2022. REUTERS/Victoria Klesty/file photo Acquire Licensing RightsCompanies Tesla Inc FollowAug 21 (Reuters) - Two former Tesla (TSLA.O) employees were behind a data breach that compromised personal information of more than 75,000 people including staff, the electric carmaker said in a legal disclosure. Data exposed by the breach was leaked to German media outlet Handelsblatt, Steven Elentukh, Tesla's data privacy officer, said in a submission to Maine's attorney general office. At the time, Tesla identified the employees who leaked the data, filed lawsuits against them and seized their devices, the company said. This Tesla breach comes after Reuters reported in April that groups of Tesla employees privately shared via internal messaging systems customer information, including videos and images recorded through car cameras.

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Persons: Victoria Klesty, Tesla, Steven Elentukh, Handelsblatt, Zaheer Kachwala, Maju Samuel Organizations: REUTERS, Companies, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Oslo, Norway, Victoria, United States, Bengaluru