This Tesla Inc. (TSLA) lawsuit is getting really messy.
The company asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie P. Cook for permission for its lawyers to subpoena AT&T Inc. (T) , Facebook Inc. (FB) , Open Whisper Systems and Dropbox Inc. (DBX) in order to help build its case against Martin Tripp, a former employee who the company said hacked its internal systems.
The judge has already authorized subpoenas for information from Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) , Alphabet Inc.'s (GOOGL) Google, and Apple Inc. (AAPL) .
"As with the subpoenas the Court has already authorized, these subpoenas require only the preservation of documents and not their actual production at this time, placing little or no burden on AT&T, Facebook, WhatsApp, Open Whisper, and Dropbox," company lawyer Joshua A. Silker wrote in his request to the court.
Tesla said that Tripp admitted to its internal investigators that he uploaded, stored, and made Tesla's confidential information available to unnamed third parties through email and other online messaging and file-sharing accounts.
"Tripp may have been sharing Tesla's confidential and proprietary information via the messaging services Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Signal; and via text messages sent through his personal cellular device on the AT&T Wireless network," the legal briefing said.
Tesla sued Tripp days after CEO Elon Musk sent a company-wide email that accused the then unnamed employee of sabotage and "exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties."
Musk added that the employee admitted to hacking the company's internal systems in retaliation for not receiving a promotion he felt he deserved.
However, Tripp said that his motivations were pure and that he had witnessed "scary" things at Tesla that the public needed to know about.
Those scary things included batteries that had been installed in cars despite the fact that they were punctured. Tripp also admitted to the Washington Post that he was the person behind a document leak earlier this month that led to a Business Insider story about the size of the inventory of the company's excess scrap parts.
"I am being singled out for being a whistleblower. I didn't hack into system. The data I was collecting was so severe, I had to go to the media," Tripp said in a statement to CNNMoney.
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