ChatGPT Data Breach Confirmed as Security Firm Warns of Vulnerable Component Exploitation

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has confirmed a data breach caused by a bug in an open source library, just as a cybersecurity firm noticed that a recently introduced component is affected by an actively exploited vulnerability.
OpenAI said on Friday that it had taken the chatbot offline earlier in the week while it worked with the maintainers of the Redis data platform to patch a flaw that resulted in the exposure of user information.
communicates with various command-and-control (C2) servers,” cybersecurity company Sophos said.