Data risk

AI Data Leakage

Data leakage in AI systems usually happens through people pasting secrets, through logs that keep prompts, or through tools the model is allowed to call.

All AI security topics
01

Prompts are data

Anything placed in a prompt — customer records, source code, session cookies, internal URLs — is processed by the model provider and may be stored according to that provider’s terms. If you would not email the text to that vendor, do not paste it into a chat.

02

Logs and transcripts

Applications often keep transcripts for debugging. Those stores become a second copy of whatever users typed. Minimize retention, restrict who can read logs, and strip secrets before writing. Browser storage on this site is local to the visitor; operators cannot read it remotely.

03

Connected tools

If an assistant can search mail, tickets, or files, a manipulated prompt might cause it to retrieve more than the user intended. Limit tool scopes, require confirmation for exports, and never attach a key that can read production data you are not willing to expose to the model path.