Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived
Across 2024 and 2025, the share features in multiple LLM platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Qwen, Mistral, and Grok, allegedly exposed user conversations marked "discoverable" to search engines and archiving services. Over 100,000 chats were reportedly indexed and later scraped, purportedly revealing API keys, access tokens, personal identifiers, and sensitive business data.
- Date it happened
- 2025-07-31
- Organisation involved
- xAI, OpenAI, Mistral, Microsoft, Anthropic, Alibaba
- Product, system or model
- Wayback Machine, Qwen, Mistral, Internet Archive, Grok, Google, Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT
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