In 2020, there was a ransomware attack that did not go as planned. Most
people probably do not even know about it because there was no money
paid out and there was nothing that was held ransom. Tesla was almost
the victim of a ransomware attack, had it not been for the honesty of one
of their employees. In August of 2020, a couple of Tesla employees were
on a trip at Lake Tahoe and one of them had an interesting request from a
visitor to the company. The employee was asked in a later meeting to
plant some malware into Tesla's network and he would receive a $1M