TECH - OpenAI's ChatGPT App For Apple's Macs Had A Major Security Flaw Allowing Malicious Parties To Snoop In On Conversations | Benzinga
OpenAI‘s recently launched ChatGPT macOS app for Apple Inc.’s Macs had a significant security vulnerability. The app was storing conversations in plain text, making them easily accessible to unauthorized users. OpenAI has since addressed and resolved this issue.
What Happened: The security flaw in the ChatGPT macOS app was brought to light by Pedro José Pereira Vieito. Vieito demonstrated on the social media platform Threads how easy it was to access and read the conversations stored in plain text, reported The Verge on Thursday.
“The OpenAI ChatGPT app on macOS is not sandboxed and stores all the conversations in plaintext in a non-protected location,” Vieito wrote.
This flaw could have potentially allowed unauthorized parties to access and read the conversations and the data within them, according to the report.
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