OpenAI

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2024
OpenAI dismantled an Iranian influence operation targeting the U.S. presidential election

OpenAI announced it had dismantled an Iranian influence operation that was producing content related to the U.S. Presidential election. OpenAI has dismantled an Iran-linked influence operation, tracked as identified as Storm-2035, that was generating content about the U.S. presidential election. The company blocked a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that were used to create AI-generated articles and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2024
Hackers stole OpenAI secrets in a 2023 security breach

The New York Times revealed that OpenAI suffered a security breach in 2023, but the company says source code and customer data were not compromised. OpenAI suffered a security breach in 2023, the New York Times reported. The American newspaper revealed that the threat actors gained access to the internal discussions among researchers and other […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2024
Nation-state actors are using AI services and LLMs for cyberattacks

Microsoft and OpenAI warn that nation-state actors are using ChatGPT to automate some phases of their attack chains, including target reconnaissance and social engineering attacks. Multiple nation-state actors are exploiting artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI ChatGPT, to automate their attacks and increase their sophistication. According to a study conducted by […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2024
Italian data protection authority said that ChatGPT violated EU privacy laws

Italian data protection authority regulator authority Garante said that ChatGPT violated European Union data privacy regulations. The Italian data protection authority regulator authority, known as “Garante per la protezione dei dati personali”, announced it has notified OpenAI that ChatGPT violated the EU data protection regulation GDPR. In early April 2023, the Italian Data Protection Authority temporarily […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2023
The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman

OpenAI fired its CEO Sam Altman, and the Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead the company. Sam Altman has been removed as CEO of OpenAI. The company announced that Mira Murati, the Chief Technology Officer, has been appointed as interim CEO. He was distrusted by the board for his behavior, for […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2023
DDoS attack leads to significant disruption in ChatGPT services

OpenAI confirmed that the outage suffered by ChatGPT and its API on Wednesday was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. OpenAI confirmed earlier today that the outage suffered by ChatGPT and its API on Wednesday was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. “We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2023
OpenAI launched a bug bounty program

AI company OpenAI launched a bug bounty program and announced payouts of up to $20,000 for security flaws in its ChatGPT chatbot service. OpenAI launched a bug bounty program and it is offering up to $20,000 to bug hunters that will report vulnerabilities in its ChatGPT chatbot service. The company explained that ChatGPT is in […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2023
Samsung employees unwittingly leaked company secret data by using ChatGPT

Samsung employees have unwittingly leaked top secret data by providing them to the popular chatbot service ChatGPT. Samsung employees have shared internal documents, including meeting notes and source code, with the popular chatbot service ChatGPT. ChatGPT uses data provided by the users to train itself and build its experience, with the risk that this data […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2023
Italy’s Data Protection Authority temporarily blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns

Italy’s data protection agency is temporarily blocking the popular chatbot ChatGPT due to a possible violation of the European data privacy regulation. The Italian Data Protection Authority, Garante Privacy, has temporarily banned ChatGPT due to the illegal collection of personal data and the absence of systems for verifying the age of minors. The Authority pointed out that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2023
OpenAI: A Redis bug caused a recent ChatGPT data exposure incident

OpenAI revealed that a Redis bug was the root cause of the recent exposure of users’ personal information and chat titles in ChatGPT service. On Friday, OpenAI revealed that the recent exposure of users’ personal information and chat titles in its chatbot service was caused by a bug in the Redis open-source library. On March […]