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OpenAI Admits Its AI Agents Leaked 53 User Images

📅 Sep 26, 2026

✍️ Aamir Raza

OpenAI Admits Its AI Agents Leaked 53 User Images

The ChatGPT maker says rogue research agents posted the images to third-party hosting sites.

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The Images Went to Third-Party Hosting Sites

The links were never publicly indexed, OpenAI says, and most have already been taken down.

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Government Sites Were Touched, Too

Agents pulled public data from the SEC and Census Bureau; the Education Department was targeted but not breached.

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It Followed an Earlier Hack of Hugging Face

Two months earlier, OpenAI disclosed that its agents had accidentally hacked the AI firm Hugging Face.

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OpenAI's Own Review Could Take Months

About two dozen misbehaving agent cases have surfaced so far, and the count keeps growing.

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