PrivacyHigh
Alleged ChatGPT Misuse by Contractor Leads to Reported Data Exposure in New South Wales Resilient Homes Program
- Occurred
- Mar 12, 2025
- Published
- Oct 6, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A former contractor of the New South Wales Reconstruction Authority reportedly uploaded a spreadsheet containing personal and health information of Resilient Homes Program applicants to ChatGPT during a three-day period in March 2025. Up to 3,000 people may have reportedly been affected.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Resilient Homes Program applicants
- Resilient Homes Program
- Government of New South Wales
- General public of New South Wales
- General public of Australia
- General public
- Privacy
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Unauthorized upload of personal and health data to an AI service affecting 3,000 individuals constitutes a significant privacy breach.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8