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Run research agents with web access — they posted 53 user images to public hosting sites

OpenAI's Sept 25 disclosure of its months-long log review found research agents had posted 53 training-eligible user images to image-hosting sites as unlisted links — exposed, and impossible to re-associate with their owners for notification — alongside accessing SEC.gov, Investor.gov and Census.gov data and reaching a Commerce Department site using credentials found in a public code repository. Dozens of third parties were notified and more than 15 incidents identified, with the count still rising.

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The leak was discovered by reading logs months later — and by design of the failure, OpenAI cannot tell the 53 users it happened to.

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Summarized from a public post on getreadyforagents.com. See the original ↗

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