Posted on 08/07/2025 1:08:22 PM PDT by Openurmind
OpenAI's ChatGPT can easily be coaxed into leaking your personal data — with just a single "poisoned" document.
As Wired reports, security researchers revealed at this year's Black Hat hacker conference that highly sensitive information can be stolen from a Google Drive account with an indirect prompt injection attack. In other words, hackers feed a document with hidden, malicious prompts to an AI that controls your data instead of manipulating it directly with a prompt injection, one of the most serious types of security flaws threatening the safety of user-facing AI systems.
ChatGPT's ability to be linked to a Gmail account allows it to rifle through your files, which could easily expose you to simple hacks.
This latest glaring lapse in cybersecurity highlights the tech's enormous shortcomings, and raises concerns that your personal data simply isn't safe with these types of tools.
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It doesn’t have to be “leaked” if Google already has that info on you. They’ve already leaked it to the highest bidders.
looks like it can be leaked to those who didn’t bid...
Just ask...................
Most task people need to use ChatGPT for can be done by running a quantized Open Source LLM on their laptop, without having to send their sensitive information to the cloud.
Keeping data in the cloud that can be used for an attack on your assets is really dumb.
There is only one way to get at my assets, and it is in my brain.
Just another reason never to use that crap.
Same here. I don't use iCloud for anything. If I want to save something, I put it on a USB stick. I also have a lot of my info, photos, etc., on my old MacBookPro hard drive that I can hook up to my current MacBook Air if I need to.
I won't even download apps to my iPhone. Don't use it for transactions, banking or emails. Why anyone would want to use their phone to do crap like that on is beyond me.
My youngest son has multiple fast-food apps on his phone to earn rewards. I laugh every time he orders something online, because the stuff is never ready when you get there, so you have to pull over and wait for them to bring it out to you, and it takes longer to order online and complete the transaction when you could have already ordered the shit at the restaurant. That's supposed to be progress?
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