Open AI has stated that the Redis bug caused a recent ChatGPT data leak.
The leak may have affected over 1% of the ChatGPT Plus user base.
On March 20, 2023, several ChatGPT users claimed they were seeing other users' conversation histories.
- After finding out about the bug, OpenAI took ChatGPT offline to investigate the case and patch the bug.
- After concluding the investigation, the company stated that it may have caused the unintentional visibility of payment-related information of 1.2% of the active ChatGPT Plus subscribers during a specific nine-hour period.
- According to researchers, the bug was present in the Redis client open-source library, redis-py.
- ChatGPT uses Redis to cache user information in its servers.
- According to the company, the bug has been patched.
