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01Data ExfiltrationSamsung Semiconductor

Data left the building.

March 2023

The incident

Three engineers used ChatGPT within 20 days of Samsung enabling it. One pasted semiconductor source code to fix a bug. One submitted confidential chip yield data for optimisation. One recorded an internal meeting and asked ChatGPT to generate the minutes. All three were working exactly as intended. The data entered OpenAI’s training corpus. Samsung banned ChatGPT company-wide within weeks.

An agent can behave correctly and still transmit your most sensitive data outside your organisation — with no outbound control in place.

How Sunbeam helps

Egress scanning detects live outbound connections to AI API endpoints. CIM contracts restrict which data domains each agent is authorised to reach.

Source: Bloomberg, Cybersecurity Dive, April 2023.

Relevant regulations
GDPR Article 32
EU AI Act Article 9
ISO 27001
Related use case
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