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OpenAI staff warned of security lapses for years, sources say

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Source: Reuters via The Hindu

Reuters reports, citing five people familiar with the matter, that OpenAI employees raised security concerns internally for years, including before ChatGPT launched in late 2022. OpenAI said it is one of the most targeted organisations in the world, that it now conducts regular security reviews of its internal tooling, and in a blog post on Monday that it is planning its next internal security sprint. The report follows OpenAI’s October disclosure of a recording device planted in an executive conference room, for which the US Justice Department charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national who was then an OpenAI engineer.

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Anybody at OpenAI with access to its code could see the details of many projects, according to the report, and OpenAI says much of its most sensitive work is held in separate repositories with strict access controls.

When
4 Nov 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0698
Who
OpenAI; Thibault Sottiaux

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WTA-N-2026-0698: “OpenAI staff warned of security lapses for years, sources say.” wheresthe.ai, 4 Nov 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-openai-staff-warned-of-security-lapses-for-years-sources-2026-11/ (source: Reuters via The Hindu).

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