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

OpenAI says it's investigating after a hacker claimed to have actually swiped login qualifications for 20 countless the AI company's user accounts-and put them up for sale on a dark web online 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 potential buyers what they claimed was sample information containing email addresses and passwords. As reported by Gbhackers, the full dataset was being sold "for just a few dollars."

"I have more than 20 million gain access to codes for OpenAI accounts," emirking composed 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 3rd major security incident for the AI business given that the release of ChatGPT to the public. Last year, links.gtanet.com.br a hacker got access to the company's internal Slack messaging system. According to The New York Times, the hacker "took details about the design of the business's A.I. technologies."

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

This time, however, security scientists aren't even sure a hack happened. Daily Dot reporter Mikael Thalan wrote on X that he found void email addresses in the expected sample information: "No evidence (recommends) this supposed OpenAI breach is genuine. At least 2 addresses were void. The user's just other post on the online forum is for a thief log. Thread has considering that been erased also."

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 only other post on the online forum is for a stealer log. Thread has since been deleted as well. 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 situation while maintaining that the company's systems appeared safe and secure.

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

The scope of the supposed breach triggered issues due to OpenAI's huge user base. Countless users worldwide count on the business's tools like ChatGPT for service operations, instructional functions, and content generation. A legitimate breach could expose private conversations, commercial tasks, and other delicate data.

Until there's a final report, some preventive steps are constantly recommended:

- Go to the "Configurations" tab, log out from all linked devices, and authentication or 2FA. This makes it essentially impossible for a hacker to gain access to the account, even if the login and passwords are jeopardized.