WASHINGTON, DC – The acting head of the nation’s cyber defense agency, Madhu Gottumukkala, uploaded sensitive government contracting material into a publicly accessible version of ChatGPT last summer, prompting internal security alerts and a subsequent review by senior Department of Homeland Security officials, according to a Politico report.

The interim head of US' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the federal agency tasked with protecting government networks, uploaded sensitive contracting documents to a public ver...

Gottumukkala, as the acting director of CISA, had requested the agency's Office of the Chief Information Officer for special permission to use OpenAI's popular AI tool - ChatGPT, Politico reported.