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AI conversations of 8 million users leaked via browser extensions (www.techzine.eu)

submitted 6 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/databreaches@lemmy.zip

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Browser extensions that promise privacy are found to be selling AI conversations from millions of users. Security researchers at Koi Security discovered that popular VPN and ad blocker extensions are secretly intercepting all conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and reselling them to data brokers.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They fell prey to one of the classic blunders. The first is this: Never get involved in a land war in Asia, and the second is: never chat with an AI when privacy is on the line!

[–] ReedReads@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago

And the third is that nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.