What Happens When an AI Company Falls Victim to a Software Supply Chain Vulnerability

On March 20th, 2023, OpenAI took down the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT for a few hours. It later admitted that the reason for the outage was a software supply chain vulnerability that originated in the open-source in-memory data store library ‘Redis.’  

As a result of this vulnerability, there was a time window (between 1-10 am PST on March 20) where users could accidentally access other users’ chat history titles and possibly expose payment-related information such as names, email addresses, payment addresses, credit card type and last four digits of the payment card number. 

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