Removed: nothing. The dashboard stayed exposed without authentication, and the service account credentials it exposed kept permissions beyond what the workload needed.
Outcome: attackers ran cryptocurrency-mining malware inside Tesla’s cloud account.
The 2018 Tesla Kubernetes cryptojacking incident occurred because a Kubernetes dashboard was exposed without authentication, allowing access to service account credentials with excessive permissions.
Source: Ars Technica, Tesla cloud resources are hacked to run cryptocurrency-mining malware (20 February 2018)