OpenAI Data Breach Issue: Is Your ChatGPT Details At A Big Security Risk?

Last Updated:November 28, 2025, 13:43 IST

OpenAI has faced a data breach that affects its users and many are worried about their ChatGPT personal data because of this.

OpenAI has faced a major data breach because of a company that is linked to one of its data providers and the company has confirmed the issue which affects some users and their dataset. OpenAI has started investigating the reason for this breach and also stopped using the services of the company that was affected by the mishap.

ChatGPT is a big part of its user base and millions are obviously worried if their data/chats have been exposed which may contain confidential and personal content. The company has noted down all the concerns and explained the issue in a post this week.

OpenAI Data Breach: ChatGPT At Risk?

OpenAI facing a data breach means ChatGPT data in the spotlight so do users need to worry about their data being misused? OpenAI claims the data breach includes a dataset that limited information about its customers and it assures that servers and products like ChatGPT including sensitive data was not exposed. OpenAI has mentioned that the breach occurred on November 9, 2025, when the systems over Mixpanel were hacked and they were able to extract the dataset which includes details about OpenAI users.

OpenAI Data Breach: What Details Were Hacked?

The company’s post gives the details that could have been compromised because of the Mixpanel data breach:

Name of the user on the OpenAI API account
Email ID linked to the API account
Location of the API account holder
Operating system and browser used to access the API account
Referring websites
Organisation or User IDs associated with the API account

Going by these details it is clear that regular ChatGPT users don’t have to worry about the breach. However, whenever you have an incident like this, people are warned about possible phishing attempts to breach the system and access your data remotely.

And it goes without saying that OpenAI has stopped working with Mixpanel and it is likely to be a lot more stringent before working with third-party service providers going forward.

S Aadeetya

S Aadeetya, Special Correspondent at News18 Tech, accidentally got into journalism 10 years ago, and since then, has been part of established media houses covering the latest trends in technology and helping fr…Read More