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closedclosed 25 Mar 2023Breaches & attacks4 Confirmed real-world lossAI

Samsung Source Code and Meeting Records Disclosed via ChatGPT Ingestion

ChatGPT

Samsung engineers entered proprietary source code and internal meeting notes into ChatGPT during routine work tasks. The disclosure led the company to restrict employee access to external generative AI services.

first report
11 Mar 2023
last update
11 Mar 2023

Timeline · 1

  1. 11 Mar 2023ChatGPT Reportedly Implicated in Samsung Data Leak of Source Code and Meeting Notes

Sources · 1

Research and catalogues

  1. 2023-03-11
    ChatGPT Reportedly Implicated in Samsung Data Leak of Source Code and Meeting Notes
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/768

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Classification

lane
Breaches & attacks
AI role
Attack on AI
categories
Data leak
severity
4 · Confirmed real-world loss
targets
Enterprise deployment, OpenAI
owasp llm top 10
LLM02:2025 Sensitive Information Disclosure
mitre atlas
no technique for these categories
tags
samsungchatgptdata-leaksource-code
dates
happened 11 Mar 2023 · first reported 11 Mar 2023
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
record
confidence 0.95 · created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z

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# Samsung Source Code and Meeting Records Disclosed via ChatGPT Ingestion

https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/samsung-source-code-and-meeting-records-disclosed-via-chatgp · AIR-2023-0035 · closed 2023-03-25

- Lane: Breaches & attacks
- Severity: 4 (Confirmed real-world loss)
- Fix status: No fix needed
- First reported: 2023-03-11
- AI role: Attack on AI
- Products: ChatGPT

## Summary

Samsung engineers entered proprietary source code and internal meeting notes into ChatGPT during routine work tasks. The disclosure led the company to restrict employee access to external generative AI services.

## What to do

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

## Latest updates

- 2023-03-11: ChatGPT Reportedly Implicated in Samsung Data Leak of Source Code and Meeting Notes (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/768)

## Sources

- 2023-03-11 AI Incident Database: ChatGPT Reportedly Implicated in Samsung Data Leak of Source Code and Meeting Notes https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/768

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

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