PrivacyHigh
Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived
- Occurred
- Jul 31, 2025
- Published
- Aug 1, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Across 2024 and 2025, the share features in multiple LLM platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Qwen, Mistral, and Grok, allegedly exposed user conversations marked "discoverable" to search engines and archiving services. Over 100,000 chats were reportedly indexed and later scraped, purportedly revealing API keys, access tokens, personal identifiers, and sensitive business data.
Developers
- xAI
- OpenAI
- Mistral
- Microsoft
- Anthropic
- Alibaba
- Chatbot developers
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- xAI
- OpenAI
- Mistral
- Microsoft
- Anthropic
- Alibaba
Harmed parties
- Privacy
- Grok users
- General public
- Copilot users
- Claude users
- ChatGPT users
- Mistral users
- Qwen users
- Information integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Mass exposure of sensitive user data including API keys and personal identifiers via indexed share links constitutes a significant privacy breach.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8