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It's Staggeringly Easy for Hackers to Trick ChatGPT Into Leaking Your Most Personal Data
Futurism ^ | Aug 7 2025 | Victor Tangermann

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.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: cybersecurity; hackers; tech

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1 posted on 08/07/2025 1:08:22 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

It doesn’t have to be “leaked” if Google already has that info on you. They’ve already leaked it to the highest bidders.


2 posted on 08/07/2025 1:12:58 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

looks like it can be leaked to those who didn’t bid...


3 posted on 08/07/2025 1:15:14 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Openurmind

Just ask...................


4 posted on 08/07/2025 1:29:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Openurmind

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.


5 posted on 08/07/2025 1:31:34 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Openurmind

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.


6 posted on 08/07/2025 1:42:14 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (What do Nitzy, Angelino97 and Liz have in common?)
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To: Openurmind

Just another reason never to use that crap.


7 posted on 08/07/2025 2:15:48 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Uncle Miltie
"There is only one way to get at my assets, and it is in my brain."

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?

8 posted on 08/07/2025 2:22:32 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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9 posted on 08/07/2025 7:07:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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