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Shadow AI: The Silent Data Exfiltration Risk Inside Every Company
ALGERIATECH Editorial
February 22, 2026
In 2023, a Samsung engineer pasted proprietary source code into ChatGPT to help debug a problem. The code — containing semiconductor manufacturing specifications — was processed by OpenAI's servers, used as training data, and effectively transmitted outside the company's security perimeter.
