PANews reported on February 8 that according to Decrypt, OpenAI said it was investigating a hacker who claimed to have stolen the login credentials of 20 million user accounts of the AI company and sold them on a dark web forum. The pseudonymous intruder posted a mysterious message in Russian, advertising "providing access codes for more than 20 million OpenAI accounts" and calling it a "gold mine". It also provided potential buyers with sample data allegedly containing email addresses and passwords. It is reported that the complete data set is being sold for "only a few dollars."

If this incident is true, it would be the third major security incident OpenAI has encountered since ChatGPT was released to the public. However, this time, security researchers are not even sure whether a hack actually occurred. An OpenAI spokesperson responded, "We take these allegations seriously, and to date we have not seen any evidence that this is related to the leak of OpenAI systems."