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CISA Acting Director Reportedly Uploaded Sensitive Government Documents to Public ChatGPT Instance
- Occurred
- Jul 15, 2025
- Published
- Jan 27, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Madhu Gottumukkala, acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), reportedly uploaded government contracting documents marked "for official use only" into a public version of ChatGPT. The uploads reportedly triggered automated cybersecurity alerts and prompted a Department of Homeland Security review to assess potential exposure of sensitive information.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- Madhu Gottumukkala
Harmed parties
- United States Department of Homeland Security
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- United States Government
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Unauthorized upload of sensitive government documents to public AI service constitutes data exposure and privacy violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8