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Christoph Schwaiger

Over 100,000 ChatGPT accounts being sold on the dark web — what you need to know

A graphic showing off OpenAI's new GPT-4 AI language model

Over 100,000 ChatGPT accounts have been compromised by malware and put up for sale on the dark web, according to a new report. This means both the account credentials and the contents of chat histories can be accessed by bad actors willing to pay top dollar on illegal marketplaces. Given the explosion of popularity of OpenAI’s tool over the last few months, this news should serve as warning for most of the chatbot's casual users. 

On Tuesday, Singapore-based cybersecurity company Group-IB announced that it had discovered the compromised ChatGPT credentials inside logs coming from an info stealing malware called Raccoon traded on the dark web. The company identified 101,134 stealer-infected devices with saved ChatGPT credentials. 

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