Meta AI chatbot at the center of major data leak scandal

Meta’s recently launched AI chatbot has become the source of a massive privacy breach, exposing sensitive user data to the public.

According to TechCrunch, due to unclear default privacy settings, personal information such as home addresses, confessions of illegal activity, voice messages, and images ended up online. The incident is already being called one of the most serious data leaks in digital privacy history.

What remains unclear is how exactly user chats became public. By default, conversations are private. To make them public, users must manually click a “Share” button and then post the exchange to the AI’s public feed.

Some speculate users may have clicked the button accidentally or believed they were only sharing a single AI-generated response—not their full conversation history. Others suggest the leak may have stemmed from user error or even deliberate provocation. Meta has yet to issue an official statement.

In any case, the majority of users have expressed strong concerns about the idea of sharing personal AI chats publicly.