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Incident 1186: Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

Description: 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.
Editor Notes: Timeline note: According to reporting, a lot of the "discoverable" chats were archived by the Internet Archive by at least June 2024, but actual reporting on the incident did not appear to arise until the end of July and early August 2025. This incident ID was created 08/25/2025 to capture the range of reporting on this cluster of related harms. See also Incident 1172: Meta AI Bug in Deployed Service Reportedly Allowed Potential Access to Other Users' Prompts and Responses.

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Alleged: OpenAI , Anthropic , Microsoft , xAI , Alibaba , Mistral , ChatGPT , Claude , Copilot , Grok , Qwen , Internet Archive , Wayback Machine and Google developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Users of ChatGPT , Users of Claude , Users of Copilot , Users of Grok , Users of Qwen , Users of Mistral and General public.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Mistral , ChatGPT , Claude , Copilot , Grok , Qwen , Internet Archive , Wayback Machine and Google

Incident Stats

Incident ID
1186
Report Count
5
Incident Date
2025-07-31
Editors
Daniel Atherton

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

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Leaking Secrets with AI: The Hidden Risks of ChatGPT’s Share Feature
I scraped every public LLM chat so you didn't have to143,000 Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT Chats Publicly Accessible. Were You Exposed?
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Leaking Secrets with AI: The Hidden Risks of ChatGPT’s Share Feature

Leaking Secrets with AI: The Hidden Risks of ChatGPT’s Share Feature

toreon.com

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ChatGPT Confessions gone? They are not !

ChatGPT Confessions gone? They are not !

digitaldigging.org

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ChatGPT Chats Were Indexed Then Removed From Search but Still Remain Online

ChatGPT Chats Were Indexed Then Removed From Search but Still Remain Online

growtika.com

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I scraped every public LLM chat so you didn't have to

I scraped every public LLM chat so you didn't have to

julian-b.xyz

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143,000 Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT Chats Publicly Accessible. Were You Exposed?

143,000 Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT Chats Publicly Accessible. Were You Exposed?

obsidiansecurity.com

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Leaking Secrets with AI: The Hidden Risks of ChatGPT’s Share Feature
toreon.com · 2025

If you've ever clicked "Share" on a ChatGPT conversation, you might have unknowingly made it searchable on Google.

The share feature makes it incredibly easy to share your conversations with AI with others. But there's a catch most people d…

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ChatGPT Confessions gone? They are not !
digitaldigging.org · 2025

ChatGPT scrubbed today nearly 50,000 shared conversations from Google's index after our article. They thought they'd solved the problem. But did they?

A new Digital Digging investigation, here is the first one, conducted with Belgian resear…

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ChatGPT Chats Were Indexed Then Removed From Search but Still Remain Online
growtika.com · 2025

What started as a sharing feature turned into an unexpected SEO exposure. Over 100,000 ChatGPT chats were publicly accessible, some indexed, and many archived long before OpenAI responded.

It all started with something simple: a "Share" but…

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I scraped every public LLM chat so you didn't have to
julian-b.xyz · 2025

After all of the hype around the LLM shareable links this week I was inspired to investigate it further. On Friday, Google stopped indexing ChatGPT's shareable links, and several other providers were never indexed at all. However, after hav…

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143,000 Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT Chats Publicly Accessible. Were You Exposed?
obsidiansecurity.com · 2025

What Happened:A security researcher has discovered that over 143,000 user conversations with GenAI chatbots---including Claude, Copilot, and ChatGPT---are publicly accessible on Archive.org. This discovery follows closely on the heels of re…

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