OpenAI is in an unwelcome spotlight this week after a significant security flaw in its ChatGPT was discovered, and a previously undisclosed attack has come to light.
The specific security flaw was first exposed on July 2, when engineer Pedro José Pereira Vieito pointed out on Twitter/X that the Mac version of ChatGPT was storing the conversations of users in plain text, rather than encrypting them, meaning hackers could read them with no effort. The app can only be directly downloaded from OpenAI’s website, meaning it does not have to go through Apple’s security protocols, which would have prevented this.
