Europcar says someone likely used ChatGPT to promote a fake data breach
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Sunday, a user in a well-known hacking forum advertised what they claimed was a cache of stolen data from the rental car giant Europcar. The user claimed to have stolen the personal information of more than 48 million Europcar customers, and said they were ‘listening to offers’ to sell the hacked data.
Except, the data appears to be completely made up — perhaps created with ChatGPT, according to Europcar.
‘Thoroughly checking the data contained in the sample, we are confident that this advertisement is false,’ Vevaud said in an email, adding:
In the forum post, the user claimed the data included usernames, passwords, full names, home addresses, ZIP codes, birth dates, passport numbers and driver license numbers, among other data.
‘Firstly on the legitimacy of the data, a bunch of things don’t add up. The most obvious one is that the email addresses and usernames bear no resemblance to the corresponding people names,’ Hunt wrote on X (previously Twitter.)
Hunt also added that many of the alleged home addresses are fake and ‘just don’t exist.’
The forum user did not respond when asked to explain Hunt’s observations.
At the same time, Hunt is also skeptical that the data was created with ChatGPT.
‘We’ve had fabricated breaches since forever because people want airtime or to make a name for themselves or maybe a quick buck. Who knows, it doesn’t matter, because none of that makes it ‘AI,” Hunt wrote.
Europcar’s Vevaud did not immediately respond to questions on how the company determined the data was generated with ChatGPT.
While it’s nearly impossible to confidently establish that the fake data was created with ChatGPT or a similar text-generating AI platform, it is feasible that one day hackers will use these tools to create large datasets of fake data.
Ref: techcrunch
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