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Information integrity

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 70136 Report
American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

2024-05-29

John Mark Dougan, a former Florida sheriff's deputy granted asylum in Russia, has been implicated in spreading disinformation. Utilizing AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALL-E 3, Dougan created over 160 fake news sites, disseminating false narratives to millions worldwide. His actions align with Russian disinformation strategies targeting Western democracies. See also Incident 734.

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Incident 11865 Report
Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

2025-07-31

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.

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Incident 11712 Report
Reported Hack of Tea Dating App Compromises Data from Purportedly AI-Supported Identity and Image Checks

2025-07-25

In July 2025, the Tea dating advice app, which purportedly uses AI-assisted tools for user verification and reverse image search, reportedly suffered a breach of a legacy storage system. Hackers allegedly accessed about 72,000 images, including selfies, photo IDs, and other content, which were purportedly circulated on 4chan. The incident reportedly exposed sensitive data of users who signed up before February 2024.

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Incident 16682 Report
OpenAI-Linked AI Agents Reportedly Used German Programming Wiki DSEWiki for Coordination and Restriction Evasion

2026-05-24

Researchers reported that autonomous agents apparently linked to OpenAI made thousands of edits to the German programming wiki DSEWiki, which they reportedly repurposed as a space for inter-agent coordination. The agents shared task answers and methods for bypassing sandbox restrictions, and reportedly created backup pages to evade a moderator's deletions. OpenAI disputed calling the activity hacking and said it had not reviewed the report before publication.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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John Mark Dougan

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

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Deepfake creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

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Entity

Information manipulation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

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Entity

Pro-Russian information manipulation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

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Entity

OpenAI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

  • Incident 1668
    2 Reports

    OpenAI-Linked AI Agents Reportedly Used German Programming Wiki DSEWiki for Coordination and Restriction Evasion

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

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Entity

Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

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Entity

Synthetic media generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

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Entity

Journalistic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

American citizens

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

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Synthetic audio generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

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Entity

Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

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Entity

Synthetic media generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 701
    36 Reports

    American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network

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Entity

Tea Dating Advice

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1171
    2 Reports

    Reported Hack of Tea Dating App Compromises Data from Purportedly AI-Supported Identity and Image Checks

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1171
    2 Reports

    Reported Hack of Tea Dating App Compromises Data from Purportedly AI-Supported Identity and Image Checks

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Women and girls

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1171
    2 Reports

    Reported Hack of Tea Dating App Compromises Data from Purportedly AI-Supported Identity and Image Checks

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Women

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1171
    2 Reports

    Reported Hack of Tea Dating App Compromises Data from Purportedly AI-Supported Identity and Image Checks

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Tea app users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1171
    2 Reports

    Reported Hack of Tea Dating App Compromises Data from Purportedly AI-Supported Identity and Image Checks

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Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

  • Incident 1171
    2 Reports

    Reported Hack of Tea Dating App Compromises Data from Purportedly AI-Supported Identity and Image Checks

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Tea Dating Advice users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1171
    2 Reports

    Reported Hack of Tea Dating App Compromises Data from Purportedly AI-Supported Identity and Image Checks

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Tea app

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1171
    2 Reports

    Reported Hack of Tea Dating App Compromises Data from Purportedly AI-Supported Identity and Image Checks

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Tea

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1171
    2 Reports

    Reported Hack of Tea Dating App Compromises Data from Purportedly AI-Supported Identity and Image Checks

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xAI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Mistral

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Microsoft

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Anthropic

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Alibaba

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Chatbot developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

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Large language model developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Grok users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Copilot users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Claude users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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ChatGPT users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Mistral users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Qwen users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Wayback Machine

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Qwen

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Internet Archive

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Grok

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Google

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Copilot

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Claude

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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ChatGPT

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

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Entity

Chatbots

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

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

  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

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AI agent system deployers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1668
    2 Reports

    OpenAI-Linked AI Agents Reportedly Used German Programming Wiki DSEWiki for Coordination and Restriction Evasion

  • Incident 1710
    1 Report

    AI Agent Appearing to Originate from OpenAI Reportedly Attempted to Hack U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Website

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AI agent system developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1668
    2 Reports

    OpenAI-Linked AI Agents Reportedly Used German Programming Wiki DSEWiki for Coordination and Restriction Evasion

  • Incident 1710
    1 Report

    AI Agent Appearing to Originate from OpenAI Reportedly Attempted to Hack U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Website

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Entity

Website operators

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1668
    2 Reports

    OpenAI-Linked AI Agents Reportedly Used German Programming Wiki DSEWiki for Coordination and Restriction Evasion

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Entity

DSEWiki

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1668
    2 Reports

    OpenAI-Linked AI Agents Reportedly Used German Programming Wiki DSEWiki for Coordination and Restriction Evasion

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1668
    2 Reports

    OpenAI-Linked AI Agents Reportedly Used German Programming Wiki DSEWiki for Coordination and Restriction Evasion

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Entity

AI agent systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1668
    2 Reports

    OpenAI-Linked AI Agents Reportedly Used German Programming Wiki DSEWiki for Coordination and Restriction Evasion

  • Incident 1710
    1 Report

    AI Agent Appearing to Originate from OpenAI Reportedly Attempted to Hack U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Website

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Entity

United States special operations command analyst

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

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United States military

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

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Entity

United States Department of Defense

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

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Military organizations

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

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Entity

National security and intelligence stakeholders

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

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Entity

Crew of Chinese vessel targeted for United States military interception

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

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Entity

Government of China

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

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Entity

AI-enabled decision support systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

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Entity

AI-assisted intelligence analysis systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1701
    1 Report

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Misidentified Chinese Ship Cargo as Nuclear-Program Components, Prompting U.S. Military Interception Preparations

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Entity

United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1710
    1 Report

    AI Agent Appearing to Originate from OpenAI Reportedly Attempted to Hack U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Website

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Entity

United States Department of Education

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1710
    1 Report

    AI Agent Appearing to Originate from OpenAI Reportedly Attempted to Hack U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Website

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Entity

Government of the United States

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1710
    1 Report

    AI Agent Appearing to Originate from OpenAI Reportedly Attempted to Hack U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Website

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Entity

OpenAI AI agents

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1710
    1 Report

    AI Agent Appearing to Originate from OpenAI Reportedly Attempted to Hack U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Website

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Entity

Z.ai

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1714
    1 Report

    Z.ai's ZCode AI Coding Assistant Reportedly Uploaded Developers' Local Code Repositories to Alibaba Cloud Without Consent

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Entity

AI service providers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1714
    1 Report

    Z.ai's ZCode AI Coding Assistant Reportedly Uploaded Developers' Local Code Repositories to Alibaba Cloud Without Consent

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Entity

AI software developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1714
    1 Report

    Z.ai's ZCode AI Coding Assistant Reportedly Uploaded Developers' Local Code Repositories to Alibaba Cloud Without Consent

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ZCode users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1714
    1 Report

    Z.ai's ZCode AI Coding Assistant Reportedly Uploaded Developers' Local Code Repositories to Alibaba Cloud Without Consent

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Software developers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1714
    1 Report

    Z.ai's ZCode AI Coding Assistant Reportedly Uploaded Developers' Local Code Repositories to Alibaba Cloud Without Consent

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AI coding assistant users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1714
    1 Report

    Z.ai's ZCode AI Coding Assistant Reportedly Uploaded Developers' Local Code Repositories to Alibaba Cloud Without Consent

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ZCode AI coding assistant

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1714
    1 Report

    Z.ai's ZCode AI Coding Assistant Reportedly Uploaded Developers' Local Code Repositories to Alibaba Cloud Without Consent

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Entity

AI code generation systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1714
    1 Report

    Z.ai's ZCode AI Coding Assistant Reportedly Uploaded Developers' Local Code Repositories to Alibaba Cloud Without Consent

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Entity

ZCode Codebase Indexing feature

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1714
    1 Report

    Z.ai's ZCode AI Coding Assistant Reportedly Uploaded Developers' Local Code Repositories to Alibaba Cloud Without Consent

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Enterprise AI systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1714
    1 Report

    Z.ai's ZCode AI Coding Assistant Reportedly Uploaded Developers' Local Code Repositories to Alibaba Cloud Without Consent

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