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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
CISA Acting Director Reportedly Uploaded Sensitive Government Documents to Public ChatGPT Instance
Madhu Gottumukkala, acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), reportedly uploaded government contracting documents marked "for official use only" into a public version of ChatGPT. The uploads reportedly triggered automated cybersecurity alerts and prompted a Department of Homeland Security review to assess potential exposure of sensitive information.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-01-27T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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