Mar 12, 2025Confirmed
Alleged ChatGPT Misuse by Contractor Leads to Reported Data Exposure in New South Wales Resilient Homes Program
Rogue: Caused harmAI loose in the worldData exfiltrationDERIVED
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A former contractor of the New South Wales Reconstruction Authority reportedly uploaded a spreadsheet containing personal and health information of Resilient Homes Program applicants to ChatGPT during a three-day period in March 2025. Up to 3,000 people may have reportedly been affected.
What this means for youIf you applied to a government home-repair or resilience program, your personal and health details may have been pasted into a public AI tool by a contractor. At work, staff should not paste client records into AI chatbots unless the tool is approved for that data. Government agencies should set clear rules on which data can go into AI tools and audit contractors who use them.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1228
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
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