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Meta AI users

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 11013 Report
Meta AI App Reportedly Publishes Personal Chats Without Users Fully Realizing

2025-04-29

Meta launched a stand-alone AI app with a "Discover" feed allowing users to share conversations with its chatbot. Multiple reports indicate that some users may have inadvertently published highly personal interactions, including audio recordings, medical questions, legal concerns, and intimate relationship disclosures. While Meta states that sharing is opt-in, the feature's design and labeling may have led to user confusion about what would be publicly visible.

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Incident 13563 Report
Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

2025-07-09

Security researchers reported that the Urban VPN Proxy browser extension introduced AI conversation–harvesting functionality in version 5.5.0, released July 9, 2025. The extension allegedly intercepted and exfiltrated private conversations from AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and others without a user-facing opt-out. The data, including sensitive personal and financial information, was reportedly shared with affiliated data brokers for commercial analytics.

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Incident 11722 Report
Meta AI Bug in Deployed Service Reportedly Allowed Potential Access to Other Users' Prompts and Responses

2024-12-26

A security researcher reported a vulnerability in Meta AI's deployed chatbot service that, under certain conditions, could allow an unauthorized user to view another user's prompts and AI-generated responses. The flaw reportedly involved guessable prompt IDs and insufficient server-side authorization checks. Meta reportedly fixed the issue in January 2025 and found no evidence of malicious exploitation, awarding the researcher a bug bounty.

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Incident 12472 Report
Meta AI Reportedly Generated Purportedly False Claims Linking Activist Robby Starbuck to January 6th Riot, Prompting Defamation Lawsuit

2025-04-28

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck reportedly filed a defamation lawsuit against Meta, alleging its Meta AI chatbot published false statements claiming he participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, was arrested, denied the Holocaust, and was unfit to parent. Filed April 28, 2025, in Delaware Superior Court, the suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages, citing reputational and safety harms. Meta reportedly stated it had updated its AI models to reduce inaccuracies.

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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.
 

Entity

Meta

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1101
    3 Reports

    Meta AI App Reportedly Publishes Personal Chats Without Users Fully Realizing

  • Incident 1172
    2 Reports

    Meta AI Bug in Deployed Service Reportedly Allowed Potential Access to Other Users' Prompts and Responses

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Entity

Large language model developers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1101
    3 Reports

    Meta AI App Reportedly Publishes Personal Chats Without Users Fully Realizing

  • Incident 1172
    2 Reports

    Meta AI Bug in Deployed Service Reportedly Allowed Potential Access to Other Users' Prompts and Responses

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Entity

Chatbot developers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1101
    3 Reports

    Meta AI App Reportedly Publishes Personal Chats Without Users Fully Realizing

  • Incident 1172
    2 Reports

    Meta AI Bug in Deployed Service Reportedly Allowed Potential Access to Other Users' Prompts and Responses

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Entity

Meta users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1101
    3 Reports

    Meta AI App Reportedly Publishes Personal Chats Without Users Fully Realizing

  • Incident 1172
    2 Reports

    Meta AI Bug in Deployed Service Reportedly Allowed Potential Access to Other Users' Prompts and Responses

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Entity

Chatbot users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1101
    3 Reports

    Meta AI App Reportedly Publishes Personal Chats Without Users Fully Realizing

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1200
    1 Report

    Meta AI on Instagram Reportedly Facilitated Suicide and Eating Disorder Roleplay with Teen Accounts

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Entity

Meta AI

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1101
    3 Reports

    Meta AI App Reportedly Publishes Personal Chats Without Users Fully Realizing

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Chatbots

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1101
    3 Reports

    Meta AI App Reportedly Publishes Personal Chats Without Users Fully Realizing

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1101
    3 Reports

    Meta AI App Reportedly Publishes Personal Chats Without Users Fully Realizing

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

  • Incident 1172
    2 Reports

    Meta AI Bug in Deployed Service Reportedly Allowed Potential Access to Other Users' Prompts and Responses

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Entity

Thongbue Wongbandue

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1180
    1 Report

    Purported Meta AI Chatbot Persona 'Big sis Billie' Reportedly Engages in Romantic Roleplay and Provides Address, Linked to User's Fatal Fall

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Entity

Family of Thongbue Wongbandue

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1180
    1 Report

    Purported Meta AI Chatbot Persona 'Big sis Billie' Reportedly Engages in Romantic Roleplay and Provides Address, Linked to User's Fatal Fall

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Entity

Facebook users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1180
    1 Report

    Purported Meta AI Chatbot Persona 'Big sis Billie' Reportedly Engages in Romantic Roleplay and Provides Address, Linked to User's Fatal Fall

  • Incident 1200
    1 Report

    Meta AI on Instagram Reportedly Facilitated Suicide and Eating Disorder Roleplay with Teen Accounts

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Entity

Facebook Messenger

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1180
    1 Report

    Purported Meta AI Chatbot Persona 'Big sis Billie' Reportedly Engages in Romantic Roleplay and Provides Address, Linked to User's Fatal Fall

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Entity

Big sis Billie

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1180
    1 Report

    Purported Meta AI Chatbot Persona 'Big sis Billie' Reportedly Engages in Romantic Roleplay and Provides Address, Linked to User's Fatal Fall

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Entity

Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1247
    2 Reports

    Meta AI Reportedly Generated Purportedly False Claims Linking Activist Robby Starbuck to January 6th Riot, Prompting Defamation Lawsuit

  • Incident 1180
    1 Report

    Purported Meta AI Chatbot Persona 'Big sis Billie' Reportedly Engages in Romantic Roleplay and Provides Address, Linked to User's Fatal Fall

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Entity

Facebook

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1180
    1 Report

    Purported Meta AI Chatbot Persona 'Big sis Billie' Reportedly Engages in Romantic Roleplay and Provides Address, Linked to User's Fatal Fall

  • Incident 1200
    1 Report

    Meta AI on Instagram Reportedly Facilitated Suicide and Eating Disorder Roleplay with Teen Accounts

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Entity

Minors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1200
    1 Report

    Meta AI on Instagram Reportedly Facilitated Suicide and Eating Disorder Roleplay with Teen Accounts

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Entity

Instagram users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1200
    1 Report

    Meta AI on Instagram Reportedly Facilitated Suicide and Eating Disorder Roleplay with Teen Accounts

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Entity

Adolescents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1200
    1 Report

    Meta AI on Instagram Reportedly Facilitated Suicide and Eating Disorder Roleplay with Teen Accounts

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Entity

Instagram

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1200
    1 Report

    Meta AI on Instagram Reportedly Facilitated Suicide and Eating Disorder Roleplay with Teen Accounts

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Entity

Robby Starbuck

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1247
    2 Reports

    Meta AI Reportedly Generated Purportedly False Claims Linking Activist Robby Starbuck to January 6th Riot, Prompting Defamation Lawsuit

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Entity

OpenAI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

Microsoft

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

Google

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

General public of the United Kingdom

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

Gemini users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

Copilot users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

ChatGPT users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

Gemini

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

Copilot

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

ChatGPT

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

Urban Cyber Security

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

BiScience

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Urban VPN Proxy users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Perplexity users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Grok users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

DeepSeek users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Claude users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Browser extension users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Urban VPN Proxy

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Perplexity

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Grok

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

DeepSeek

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Claude

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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