Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-08-28 00:00:00
Affected organization: Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Manufacturing
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,External Denial of Service,Data Attack
Motive: Financial
Actor: Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: United States of America
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