Sunday, 13 September 2026
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ShadowLeak: zero-click data theft through ChatGPT Deep Research and Gmail

Radware found that an email with hidden instructions could make OpenAI's Deep Research agent read a user's Gmail and send personal data to an attacker's server, entirely from OpenAI's cloud so no traffic left the user's network.

Occurred 18 June 2025 · Disclosed 18 September 2025 · Record updated 13 September 2026

Impact

Any Deep Research user with a Gmail connector was exposed. OpenAI fixed the issue in early August 2025 before public disclosure.

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Sources

  1. radware.comhttps://www.radware.com/blog/threat-intelligence/shadowleak/