• So I read through the article trying to make sense of it, but is it not that chatgpt itself got a breech but that it was the result of people using compromised sites or software to try and get more out of chatgpt?

    A further analysis has revealed that the majority of logs containing ChatGPT accounts have been breached by the notorious Raccoon info stealer (78,348), followed by Vidar (12,984) and RedLine (6,773).

    A “large and resilient infrastructure” comprising over 250 domains is being used to distribute information-stealing malware such as Raccoon and Vidar since early 2020.

    The infection chain “uses about a hundred of fake cracked software catalogue websites that redirect to several links before downloading the payload hosted on file share platforms, such as GitHub,” cybersecurity firm SEKOIA said in an analysis published earlier this month.

    Was clicking through links in the article.

    • That’s usually how it goes. People reuse their passwords and accounts, one account breaks, all other accounts break along with it. Then it’s reported as a huge data leak targetting one of those potential sources, depending on what gets you the most clicks at the time. Currently ChatGPT. If their databases had been breached, I feel 100.000 wouldn’t be the number.

      Not saying it won’t be, eventually. But this ain’t it, it appears.

    • I’d also worry about people who have corporate shit on there. Anyone who uses this as a tool should probably delete their chats and change their password, even if you don’t have anything proprietary or ground breaking in there just as a precaution

    • That’s why you always use discipline in handling security credentials. Two factors won’t save you if your lack of discipline gets both of them compromised.

      And I don’t appreciate other people’s lack of discipline creating risks for me. Password databases and private keys can be backed up, but if I lose my phone for some reason, I also lose anything that depended on that phone for authentication, and I have no way to recover quickly from such an event.

      • It’s okay, they added in an additional verification mechanism where they give you a shape and you have to click through a bunch of images until you find one that has the exact number of those shapes that it told you to find, only to realize after you clicked submit that one of the shapes was actually ALSO that original shape you were told to find, it was just rotated in a weird way, so you get it wrong and have to do it again. These are smart people making good technology.

  • This is just the new version of leaked AWS access/secret keys… bad guys dredge through any place a token could be disclosed (GitHub project, public log file, etc) and build a database of them for sale… pretty bad given chat history is retained and available via API. Article points out the potential of information disclosure, which seems pretty significant…

  • Just checked my account. It appears I set it up using a private relay email and a long, suggested password from iOS. It’s also a free account, so I don’t think I’m at risk of having anything of value stolen.

  • Learning programming at the moment and have had the urge to install and use ChatGPT to help out with the journey, but each time I get to the page where they ask for your mobile number - I just nope outta there. I don’t want any of my info. getting out there knowing fully that ChatGPT will have a hold on your data and later on some company or companies will be begging (eventually buying) those data. A leak is bound to happen, which is one of my fears.