PrivacyHigh
ChatGPT Reportedly Implicated in Samsung Data Leak of Source Code and Meeting Notes
- Occurred
- Mar 11, 2023
- Published
- Apr 4, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Samsung engineers are reported to have inadvertently leaked sensitive company data sometime in March 2023, including source code and internal meeting notes, by using ChatGPT to assist with tasks. ChatGPT allegedly retained the inputted data, leading to a purported breach of confidentiality.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- Samsung engineers
- Samsung
Harmed parties
- Samsung
- Privacy
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Unauthorized data exposure via AI tool usage constitutes a privacy breach with significant corporate risk.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8