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A hacker said they purloined private details from millions of OpenAI accounts-but scientists are doubtful, and the company is investigating.

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

The pseudonymous breacher published a cryptic message in Russian advertising "more than 20 million gain access to codes to OpenAI accounts," calling it "a goldmine" and providing prospective buyers what they claimed was sample information containing email addresses and passwords. As reported by Gbhackers, the full dataset was being offered for sale "for simply a couple of dollars."

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

If genuine, this would be the third major security event for the AI business since the release of ChatGPT to the general public. In 2015, users.atw.hu a hacker got access to the business's internal Slack messaging system. According to The New York City Times, the hacker "stole details about the style of the business's A.I. innovations."

Before that, mediawiki.hcah.in in 2023 an even simpler bug involving jailbreaking triggers permitted hackers to obtain the private information of OpenAI's paying clients.

This time, nevertheless, security researchers aren't even sure a hack took place. Daily Dot reporter Mikael Thalan composed on X that he found invalid email addresses in the supposed sample data: "No proof (recommends) this supposed OpenAI breach is legitimate. A minimum of two addresses were void. The user's just other post on the forum is for a thief log. Thread has actually since been erased too."

No evidence this supposed OpenAI breach is genuine.

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

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

- Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) February 6, 2025

OpenAI takes it 'seriously'

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

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

The scope of the supposed breach stimulated issues due to OpenAI's huge user base. Millions of users worldwide rely on the business's tools like ChatGPT for company operations, educational purposes, and material generation. A legitimate breach could expose personal conversations, business tasks, and other sensitive data.

Until there's a final report, some preventive procedures are always recommended:

- Go to the "Configurations" tab, log out from all linked devices, and enable two-factor authentication or 2FA. This makes it virtually difficult for forum.kepri.bawaslu.go.id a hacker to gain access to the account, even if the login and passwords are compromised.