Tesla Hit With Employee Class Action Over May Data Breach

Tesla Inc. allegedly failed to protect the personal information of 75,000 current and former employees that was exposed in a May data breach carried out by former employees of the company, a proposed federal class action said.

Benson Pai alleged that Tesla failed to implement or follow reasonable data security procedures as required by law and failed to protect the sensitive information of class members from unauthorized access.

Tesla learned of the breach in May, when it was informed by a German-language news service, Handelsblatt, that two former Tesla employees had provided it with information taken from Tesla’s network, according ...