{"id":1043564,"date":"2026-10-15T09:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043564"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:39:07","slug":"saudi-employee-arrested-for-allegedly-bugging-openai-office-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/saudi-employee-arrested-for-allegedly-bugging-openai-office-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi employee arrested for allegedly bugging OpenAI office in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: A Saudi employee of OpenAI was arrested after allegedly planting a recording device in one of the company&#8217;s San Francisco offices, the AI firm and federal prosecutors said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices&#8221; and &#8220;referred the matter to the FBI,&#8221; OpenAI told AFP in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>OpenAI&#8217;s security team found the device late last month and the employee, Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested on October 9, the US Justice Department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: A Saudi employee of OpenAI was arrested after allegedly planting a recording device in one of the company&#8217;s San Francisco offices, the AI firm and federal prosecutors said Tuesday. &#8220;We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices&#8221; and &#8220;referred the matter to the FBI,&#8221; OpenAI told AFP in a statement. OpenAI&#8217;s security team found the device late last month and the employee, Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested on October 9, the US Justice Department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043598,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043564\/revisions\/1043598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}