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- AI dev firm Vibetech exposed 13.7M records from past breaches
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found an unauthenticated database holding 13.7 million records drawn from previous data breaches and leaks, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, passwords and bank account details. The archive was sorted by company, with almost 8 million records tied to an AT&T leak plus Amazon (1.2 million), Walmart (420,000), BluBank Digital Bank (24,000), PayPal (18,000), the FBI Employee Directory (4,084) and Interpol (929). Fowler linked the database's IP address to a data intelligence platform operated or developed by Indian software development platform Vibetech, which he speculates was collecting breach datasets and accidentally left them public; after he notified the company and its hosting provider, the database was restricted, and a day later the IP showed an ISMS compliance platform dashboard instead.
TechRadar · 🔥 0 - FBI, DHS, NYPD docs since 2021 treat AI as extremism tool and target
According to The Guardian, US law enforcement and intelligence documents show that since 2021 the FBI, DHS and the NYPD have viewed AI both as a facilitator of violent extremism and as a target for attacks. The report says authorities from the FBI down to local police departments are increasingly warning that would-be terrorists could use chatbots to plan attacks, while anti-AI extremist threats also exist. The account is based on agency documents, and specific cases or figures are not detailed in the reporting.
Techmeme · 🔥 0 - FBI arrests OpenAI engineer over hidden recorder; one-way Saudi ticket revealed
The FBI arrested Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi citizen and U.S. legal permanent resident who worked as an OpenAI engineer, on Oct. 9 and charged him with using a device to intercept oral communications, an offense carrying up to five years in prison; the case is unresolved and he is presumed innocent. OpenAI said staff found a USB recording device wrapped in toilet paper behind a TV in a restricted executive conference room on Sept. 30, and that it used its own models to analyze the device and identify who planted it before referring the matter to the FBI, adding that it found no evidence model weights, source code or customer data were taken. Prosecutors said in an Oct. 8 sealing request that Alfozan, his wife and another family member had booked one-way tickets from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia via Istanbul for Oct. 12, and he remains in federal custody ahead of an Oct. 19 detention hearing.
Techmeme · 🔥 10 - US backs OpenAI fair use but calls Chinese model distillation a threat
In September 2026 the US government took two opposing positions on AI data use. On Sept 1 the Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in the Southern District of New York backing OpenAI in copyright suits brought by The New York Times and other publishers, arguing that training models on copyrighted text is highly transformative fair use and that requiring licenses would be unacceptable. On Sept 8, the NSA, CISA and FBI issued a joint cybersecurity advisory saying six Chinese firms used APIs to distill US frontier models such as Claude and GPT, extracting billions of tokens, and labeled it malicious, targeted capability theft. The article argues training and distillation are technically kindred: both use existing corpora without individual authorization, both yield new parameters rather than copies, and both may substitute for the original market — differing mainly in whether the material learned from is human work or machine output.
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