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incidents/AIR-2025-0091

CISA Acting Director Uploaded Sensitive Documents to Public ChatGPT

Attack on AI3 Confirmed exploitationData leak

A government official uploaded sensitive documents into a public instance of ChatGPT, triggering automated alerts and a federal review. The incident exposed official government contracting information to external systems.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Data leak
    Training data, chat logs, system prompts, model weights or other AI-system data exposed.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
no technique for these categories
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
Used against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
targets
OpenAI, Enterprise deployment
products
ChatGPT
incident date
15 Jul 2025
first reported
15 Jul 2025
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.85 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
data-leak · chatgpt · insider-risk
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2025-07-15
    CISA Acting Director Reportedly Uploaded Sensitive Government Documents to Public ChatGPT Instance
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1360

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