Hackers Likely Used ChatGPT To Create Fake Data Breach

London: Hackers have doubtless used ChatGPT to advertise a faux information breach the place they claimed a cache of stolen information from the rental automobile big Europcar. The hackers claimed to have stolen the non-public info of greater than 48 million Europcar prospects. They additionally threatened to promote the hacked information. However, Europcar has now revealed the entire information breach saga was created utilizing ChatGPT.

A Europcar spokesperson instructed TechCrunch that the corporate investigated the alleged breach after a risk intelligence service alerted it to the discussion board commercial. “Thoroughly checking the data contained in the sample, we are confident that this advertisement is false,” the corporate spokesperson mentioned. (Also Read: Budget 2024: Upcoming Period Will Be Golden Era For Tech-Savvy Youth, says FM)

“The sample data is likely ChatGPT-generated (addresses don’t exist, ZIP codes don’t match, first name and last name don’t match email addresses, email addresses use very unusual TLDs),” the corporate knowledgeable. The hacking discussion board consumer, nonetheless, mentioned “the data is real”.

In the discussion board publish, the consumer claimed the information included usernames, passwords, full names, house addresses, ZIP codes, start dates, passport numbers and driver’s license numbers, amongst different information. Troy Hunt, who runs the information breach notification service Have I Been Pwned, posted on X that on the legitimacy of the information, “a bunch of things don’t add up”.

“The most obvious one is that the email addresses and usernames bear no resemblance to the corresponding people’s names,” he posted. “Next, each of those usernames is then the alias of the email address. What are the chances that ‘every single username’ aligns with the email address? Low, very low,” Hunt wrote. (Also Read: ChatGPT Users Can Now Bring GPTs Into Any Conversation In OpenAI).

However, this does not make the e-mail addresses faux and, fairly the opposite, “a bunch of them are real and it’s easy to check”.