{"id":65530,"date":"2024-09-24T20:56:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/hacker-plants-false-memories-in-chatgpt-to-steal-user-data-in-perpetuity\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T20:56:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:56:26","slug":"hacker-plants-false-memories-in-chatgpt-to-steal-user-data-in-perpetuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/hacker-plants-false-memories-in-chatgpt-to-steal-user-data-in-perpetuity\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/memory-800x560.jpg\" alt=\"Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/memory.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"700\" data-width=\"1000\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information and malicious instructions in a user\u2019s long-term memory settings, OpenAI summarily closed the inquiry, labeling the flaw a safety issue, not, technically speaking, a security concern.<\/p>\n<p>So Rehberger did what all good researchers do: He created a proof-of-concept exploit that used the vulnerability to exfiltrate all user input in perpetuity. OpenAI engineers took notice and issued a partial fix earlier this month.<\/p>\n<h2>Strolling down memory lane<\/h2>\n<p>The vulnerability abused long-term conversation memory, a feature OpenAI began testing <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2024\/02\/amnesia-begone-soon-chatgpt-will-remember-what-you-tell-it-between-sessions\/\">in February<\/a> and made more broadly available <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/memory-and-new-controls-for-chatgpt\/\">in September<\/a>. Memory with ChatGPT stores information from previous conversations and uses it as context in all future conversations. That way, the LLM can be aware of details such as a user\u2019s age, gender, philosophical beliefs, and pretty much anything else, so those details don\u2019t have to be inputted during each conversation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=2052198#p3\">Read 6 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=2052198&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information and malicious instructions in a user\u2019s long-term memory settings, OpenAI summarily closed the inquiry, labeling the flaw a safety issue, not, technically speaking, a security concern. So Rehberger did what all good researchers do: He created a proof-of-concept exploit that used the vulnerability to exfiltrate all user input&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/hacker-plants-false-memories-in-chatgpt-to-steal-user-data-in-perpetuity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information and malicious instructions in a user\u2019s long-term memory settings, OpenAI summarily closed the inquiry, labeling the flaw a safety issue, not, technically speaking, a security concern. 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