Security Advisory

The AI Data Leak Crisis: Why Your ChatGPT Prompts Are a Security Risk

SP
Secret Pusher Team
5 min read

<Input> SECRET_KEY = "..." </Input>

You wouldn't hand your personal diary to a complete stranger. Yet, thousands of developers are handing their source code, API keys, and database schemas to chatbots every day. The prompt input box is the new perimeter, and it's currently wide open.

⚠️ The $100k Copy-Paste Mistake

In 2023, a major semiconductor company saw sensitive meeting notes and source code leak. Why? Engineers pasted them into a public LLM to "summarize this meeting" and "debug this code."

Once data enters a public LLM, it becomes part of the vector database. It effectively belongs to the model provider.

The "Prompt Injection" of Privacy

When you paste an API key into a chat to ask "Why isn't this working?", you aren't just querying a database. You are potentially training the next version of the model to know your secrets.

11%
of all copy-pastes into AI tools contain sensitive data.
Retention time of data in some public model training sets.

Practical Solution: The "Sanitization" Workflow

You don't have to stop using AI. You just need to be smarter than the model. Here is the exact workflow our team uses to stay safe.

prompt_sanitization.txt Safe to Paste

# ❌ BAD PROMPT

"Debug this: const stripe = new Stripe('sk_live_51Mz...');"

# ✅ GOOD PROMPT

"Debug this: const stripe = new Stripe('STRIPE_KEY_PLACEHOLDER');"

But what if my colleague needs the REAL key?

This is where Secret Pusher bridges the gap. You sanitize the code for the AI, but you send the real credentials to your human colleague via a self-destructing link.

1

Sanitize

Replace real secrets with `KEY_HERE` before pasting into ChatGPT/Claude.

2

Share

Send the real key via a Secret Pusher One-Time Link.

3

Destroy

The link burns after reading. The secret never enters the AI's training data.

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