If an ex company sues you, of course they will say that you did it on company time, at work, on the company laptop. That you did that or not, it's hard to prove you did not anyway.

isn't the burden of proof on Tesla's shoulder?

Yes, and that doesn't stop most lawyers from claiming it. Let's see about Tesla.

Nah.

> In the suit, Tesla also alleges that Anderson downloaded “hundreds of gigabytes” of proprietary data from his work computer to a personal storage device, and that he then manually hacked the timestamps on files to hide evidence of his acquisition of the information. He also wiped the iPhone issued by Tesla, the suit says, in order to erase evidence of his attempts to poach fellow employees. These attempts were met with only limited success, however, as only two employees apparently ever jumped ship to the new venture.

That's ballsy.