AI is Stealing Your Bloody Data – No Surprise There

Right, listen up you lot. Some “research” (as if anyone needed a study to tell them this) has confirmed what any halfway competent sysadmin knew six months ago: AI tools are now the *primary* way data’s leaking out of companies. Not phishing, not ransomware, not even your idiot users clicking on things they shouldn’t – it’s ChatGPT and its ilk.

Apparently, employees are shoving sensitive company info into these bloody chatbots like it’s going out of style. We’re talking source code, customer details, financial reports… the whole shebang. And because nobody bothered to implement proper data loss prevention (DLP) – or if they did, didn’t *actually* configure it properly – it’s all ending up who-knows-where.

The report highlights that shadow AI is a massive problem; people using tools IT doesn’t even know about. Shocking. Absolutely shocking. It also points out the usual suspects: lack of training, poor policies, and the fact that everyone thinks they’re smarter than security protocols.

They suggest things like data classification, monitoring AI usage (duh), and better DLP rules. Groundbreaking stuff, honestly. It’s all just basic hygiene people should have been doing anyway. The real kicker? This is only going to get worse as these tools become more integrated into everything.

Honestly, I’m not surprised. You give people a shiny new toy and tell them it can do anything, they’ll inevitably use it to screw things up royally. And then *I* have to deal with the fallout. Fantastic.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/new-research-ai-is-already-1-data.html

Speaking of data leaks, I once had a user paste an entire database backup into Teams because “it was easier than emailing it.” Easier for *who*, exactly? I still have nightmares about the compliance audit that followed. Don’t even get me started on the backups…

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