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closedclosed 29 Jul 2025Breaches & attacks3 Confirmed exploitationAI

CISA Acting Director Uploaded Sensitive Documents to Public ChatGPT

ChatGPT

A government official uploaded sensitive documents into a public instance of ChatGPT, triggering automated alerts and a federal review. The incident exposed official government contracting information to external systems.

first report
15 Jul 2025
last update
15 Jul 2025

Timeline · 1

  1. 15 Jul 2025CISA Acting Director Reportedly Uploaded Sensitive Government Documents to Public ChatGPT Instance

Sources · 1

Research and catalogues

  1. 2025-07-15

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Classification

AI role
Attack on AI
categories
Data leak
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
targets
OpenAI, Enterprise deployment
mitre atlas
no technique for these categories
dates
happened 15 Jul 2025 · first reported 15 Jul 2025
origin
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record
confidence 0.85 · created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z

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# CISA Acting Director Uploaded Sensitive Documents to Public ChatGPT

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/cisa-acting-director-uploaded-sensitive-documents-to-public · AIR-2025-0091 · closed 2025-07-29

- Lane: Breaches & attacks
- Severity: 3 (Confirmed exploitation)
- Fix status: No fix needed
- First reported: 2025-07-15
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: ChatGPT

## Summary

A government official uploaded sensitive documents into a public instance of ChatGPT, triggering automated alerts and a federal review. The incident exposed official government contracting information to external systems.

## What to do

No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory.

## Latest updates

- 2025-07-15: CISA Acting Director Reportedly Uploaded Sensitive Government Documents to Public ChatGPT Instance (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1360)

## Sources

- 2025-07-15 AI Incident Database: CISA Acting Director Reportedly Uploaded Sensitive Government Documents to Public ChatGPT Instance https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1360

Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.

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