Trump's Cyber Chief Uploaded State Secrets to ChatGPT (Again)
It keeps happening. Despite warnings, a high-ranking official just copy-pasted a 'Top Secret' DHS report into a public LLM. The prompt? 'Summarize this in 3 bullet points.'
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The convenience of LLMs is their biggest security flaw. When you're a busy executive (or a Cyber Chief) with a 50-page PDF, the temptation to drag-and-drop it into ChatGPT is overwhelming. This time, the document contained active details about zero-day vulnerabilities in US infrastructure.
OpenAI's automated flags caught the upload (ironically, because the document matched patterns of known classified data). They alerted the DHS, triggering a massive internal audit. The official claimed they 'thought it was the Enterprise version.'
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- Breach Type: Top Secret / NOFORN
- Platform: ChatGPT (Free Tier)
- Consequence: Immediate suspension, likely prosecution.
- Irony Level: Maximum.
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This proves that policy isn't enough. You can't train people not to be lazy. The government needs to deploy air-gapped, local models on every secure terminal so that 'summarize this' doesn't mean 'publish this to the cloud.'
The scariest part? If OpenAI hadn't flagged it, we wouldn't know. How many other secrets are sitting in the training data of the next GPT model? There are no secrets in the cloud, only eventual training examples.
