DECRYPT · 2026-10-13 21:46 UTC

OpenAI Engineer Arrested for Bugging Office, Company Says AI Caught Him

OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan arrested Oct. 9 for allegedly planting hidden encrypted audio recorder in executive conference room at San Francisco office. Prosecutors say a chatbot account tied to his spouse asked how to build and encrypt an audio recorder days before installation; security cameras caught him near the room without authorization. OpenAI says its AI models helped identify him and found no evidence he accessed model weights, source code, or customer data; employee was terminated.

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