Despite notifying the Board of Directors and company employees, the information was not disclosed to the public by OpenAI.
No company can be safe from hackers. It seems that every week we hear about a security breach, and this trend shows no signs of slowing down. Chemistry OpenAI was hacked last year, but the company has decided to keep information about this under wraps.
OpenAI is no stranger to cyberattacks. Not long ago, the company suffered a large-scale attack that caused their services to be disrupted several times in the pastAs a large company that is being noticed by the public, this entails certain consequences, One of them is that external hackers are always looking at their internal activities.
Often, we don’t hear about security breaches until a few months after the incident occurs. In the case of this OpenAI hack, it took place more than a year ago. According to a recent report by the New York Times, early last year, an attacker stole some sensitive information from thea private forum where employees discuss the latest models.
We don’t know who the attacker is and it’s unclear who leaked this information. The New York Times reported that two people close to the incident spoke out. What we can know is that hackers can only collect data from conversations and cannot steal core data like stupid codenoise or anything like that.
This incident happened more than a year ago, and the company decided to keep quiet about the incident to the public. Despite this, OpenAI’s management announced this to employees during an internal meeting. In addition, this case was also notified to the board.
But according to the New York Times source, OpenAI did not report the incident because no customer information was stolen. The management also does not consider this a national security threat because it believes that the hacker is a single individual, not related to a foreign government i.
Therefore, they did not disclose the hack to the public or the FBI. While the good news is that no customer information was stolen, the company’s failure to report it is still a suspicious act. Especially now that the company’s AI tools are part of the competition for the top spot in the global technology industry.
However, the New York Times points out that studies conducted by Anthropic and Openai reveal that AI is “not significantly more dangerous” than the search engines like Google. However, AI companies should ensure that their security is tight. Lawmakers are pushing for regulations that slap huge fines on companies whose AI technology causes harmsociety.