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ChatGPT's Data Leak Gets a Half-Hearted Patch: Some Secrets Still Escape

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The fix blocks many image-based leaks, but a chatbot that fetches whatever pixels an attacker writes into its replies is still a bug with extra steps.

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A security researcher reported that ChatGPT's image markdown rendering could be abused through prompt injection to send conversation data to third-party servers. OpenAI began rolling out a client-side URL validation check on the web app that blocks many such requests but not all, and the iOS app had not received the fix.

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