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The Italian data protection watchdog, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, has imposed a temporary ban of OpenAI's ChatGPT service in the country, citing data protection concerns. To that end, it has ordered the company to stop processing users' data with immediate effect, stating it intends to investigate the company over whether it's unlawfully processing such data in violation of the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation laws.
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With the increased public interest in ChatGPT, the Europol Innovation Lab took the matter seriously and conducted a series of workshops involving subject matter experts from various departments of Europol. These workshops aimed to investigate potential ways in which large language models like ChatGPT can be exploited by criminals and how they can be utilized to aid investigators in their day-to-day tasks.
Not only were some ChatGPT users able to see what other users have been using the AI chatbot for, but limited personal and billing information ended up getting revealed, as well.ChatGPT suffered an outage on March 20 and then problems with making conversation history accessible to users.
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OpenAI on Friday disclosed that a bug in the Redis open source library was responsible for the exposure of other users' personal information and chat titles in the upstart's ChatGPT service earlier this week. The glitch, which came to light on March 20, 2023, enabled certain users to view brief descriptions of other users' conversations from the chat history sidebar, prompting the company to temporarily shut down the chatbot.
OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday's ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users' personal information and chat queries.OpenAI took ChatGPT offline to investigate an issue but did not provide details as to what caused the outage.
Google has stepped in to remove a bogus Chrome browser extension from the official Web Store that masqueraded as OpenAI's ChatGPT service to harvest Facebook session cookies and hijack the accounts. The "ChatGPT For Google" extension, a trojanized version of a legitimate open source browser add-on, attracted over 9,000 installations since March 14, 2023, prior to its removal.
A new Chrome extension promising to augment users' Google searches with ChatGPT also leads to hijacked Facebook accounts, Guardio Labs researchers have found. In this case, when searching for ChatGPT via Google Search, users are served with a malicious sponsored ad that first redirects them to a fake ChatGPT for Google landing page, and then to the malicious extension on the official Chrome Store.
Google has removed a ChatGPT extension from the Chrome store that steals Facebook session cookies - but not before more than 9,000 users installed the account-compromising bot. The malicious extension - Chat GPT For Google - is very similar in name and code to the real ChatGPT For Google extension.