A reader of ArsTechnica was receiving the personal data of other users, including account passwords and unpublished research papers. According to the latest report from Ars Technica, the cause of those ChatGPT histories were caused by a compromised account.
A representative from OpenAI told ArsTechnica, "we consider it an account take over in that it’s consistent with activity we see where someone is contributing to a ‘pool’ of identities that an external community or proxy server uses to distribute free access. The investigation observed that conversations were created recently from Sri Lanka. These conversations are in the same time frame as successful logins from Sri Lanka.”
If your OpenAI account is hacked, any personal data shared in your chat histories can be mined by hackers. This makes perfect sense, but the idea that you could access information from other compromised accounts is out of the ordinary when it comes to security threats.
