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A hacker said they purloined private details from millions of OpenAI accounts-but researchers are skeptical, and the business is examining.

OpenAI says it's investigating after a hacker claimed to have swiped login credentials for 20 countless the AI firm's user accounts-and put them up for sale on a dark web forum.

The pseudonymous breacher posted a puzzling message in Russian marketing "more than 20 million gain access to codes to OpenAI accounts," calling it "a goldmine" and offering possible buyers what they claimed was sample information containing email addresses and passwords. As reported by Gbhackers, the full dataset was being offered for kenpoguy.com sale "for simply a few dollars."

"I have more than 20 million gain access to codes for OpenAI accounts," emirking wrote Thursday, according to an equated screenshot. "If you're interested, reach out-this is a goldmine, and Jesus concurs."

If genuine, this would be the third significant security event for the AI business considering that the release of ChatGPT to the public. In 2015, a hacker got access to the company's internal Slack messaging system. According to The New York City Times, the hacker "took details about the style of the company's A.I. innovations."

Before that, wiki.vst.hs-furtwangen.de in 2023 an even easier bug including jailbreaking triggers enabled hackers to obtain the personal data of OpenAI's paying consumers.

This time, nevertheless, security researchers aren't even sure a hack happened. Daily Dot press reporter Mikael Thalan wrote on X that he found invalid email addresses in the supposed sample information: "No proof (recommends) this alleged OpenAI breach is genuine. At least two addresses were void. The user's only other post on the online forum is for a thief log. Thread has actually considering that been erased also."

No proof this supposed OpenAI breach is legitimate.

Contacted every email address from the supposed sample of login credentials.

At least 2 addresses were . The user's just other post on the forum is for a thief log. Thread has actually because been deleted too. https://t.co/yKpmxKQhsP

- Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) February 6, 2025

OpenAI takes it 'seriously'

In a statement shown Decrypt, an OpenAI spokesperson acknowledged the scenario while maintaining that the company's systems appeared protected.

"We take these claims seriously," the representative said, including: "We have not seen any proof that this is linked to a compromise of OpenAI systems to date."

The scope of the supposed breach triggered concerns due to OpenAI's massive user base. Millions of users worldwide depend on the business's tools like ChatGPT for service operations, instructional purposes, and material generation. A legitimate breach could expose personal conversations, commercial jobs, and [smfsimple.com](https://www.smfsimple.com/ultimateportaldemo/index.php?action=profile