{"id":988651,"date":"2026-01-29T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988651"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:32:48","slug":"forced-access-then-abused-it-trumps-indian-origin-acting-cyber-chief-uploaded-sensitive-files-on-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/forced-access-then-abused-it-trumps-indian-origin-acting-cyber-chief-uploaded-sensitive-files-on-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Forced access, then abused it&#8217;: Trump&#8217;s Indian-origin acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files on ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madhu Gottumukkala, the Indian-origin interim head of the United States&#8217; cyber defence agency, reportedly uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT last year, triggering multiple security warnings at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) office.<\/p>\n<p>Gottumukkala, as the acting director of CISA, had requested the agency&#8217;s Office of the Chief Information Officer for special permission to use OpenAI&#8217;s popular AI tool &#8211; ChatGPT, Politico reported. He reportedly made the request soon after arriving at the cyber defence agency in May 2025, three officials from the Department of Homeland Security were cited as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madhu Gottumukkala, the Indian-origin interim head of the United States&#8217; cyber defence agency, reportedly uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT last year, triggering multiple security warnings at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) office. Gottumukkala, as the acting director of CISA, had requested the agency&#8217;s Office of the Chief Information Officer for special permission to use OpenAI&#8217;s popular AI tool &#8211; ChatGPT, Politico reported. He reportedly made the request soon after arriving at the cyber defence agency in May 2025, three officials from the Department of Homeland Security were cited as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988651","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}