ChatGPT Reportedly Implicated in Samsung Data Leak of Source Code and Meeting Notes
Curated from incidentdatabase.ai · 6 April 2023 →
Samsung's semiconductor division allowed staff to use ChatGPT at work in March 2023. Within twenty days there were three separate incidents: an engineer pasted in source code from an internal database to get help with an error, another pasted in code for detecting equipment defects to get it optimised, and a third put a recording of an internal meeting through transcription and then into ChatGPT for minutes. None of this was an attack and none of it broke a rule that existed at the time. OpenAI's terms then allowed submitted content to be used for training, so the material was gone. Samsung banned generative AI tools on company devices within a month. It is the founding case of what is now called shadow AI, and the mechanism is just that a chat box is the easiest place to put a hard problem.