Unstoppable. Probably.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/gen_ai_shadow_it_secrets/

Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT

Employees could be opening up to OpenAI in ways that put sensitive data at risk. According to a study by security biz LayerX, a large number of corporate users paste Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or Payment Card Industry (PCI) numbers right into ChatGPT, even if they're using the bot without permission.

In its Enterprise AI and SaaS Data Security Report 2025, LayerX blames the growing, largely uncontrolled usage of generative AI tools for exfiltrating personal and payment data from enterprise environments.

With 45 percent of enterprise employees now using generative AI tools, 77 percent of these AI users have been copying and pasting data into their chatbot queries, the LayerX study says. A bit more than a fifth (22 percent) of these copy and paste operations include PII/PCI.

"With 82 percent of pastes coming from unmanaged personal accounts, enterprises have little to no visibility into what data is being shared, creating a massive blind spot for data leakage and compliance risks," the report says.

Perspective.

https://www.bespacific.com/consumer-reports-study-finds-surge-in-texting-and-messaging-scams/

Consumer Reports study finds surge in texting and messaging scams

Consumer Reports “(CR) along with Aspen Digital and the Global Cyber Alliance, released the fourth annual Consumer Cyber Readiness Report today, marking the beginning of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The report examines American consumer attitudes on digital privacy and security and steps they are taking to protect themselves from potential threats.  The report found that over the past year, consumers have seen a significant increase in text messaging-based scams, especially for younger American consumers aged between 18 – 29 years old. In addition to revealing disparities based on age, this year’s data showed stark inequities regarding the groups most vulnerable to digital scams. For example, while the percentage of Americans who reported losing money from a digital scam remains the same as last year, at 1 in 10, this year’s report revealed for the first time that, among those who had encountered a scam attempt, people with the lowest household incomes were three times as likely to report financial losses due to scams as people in the highest income households (29 percent compared to 10 percent). The report also found continued racial disparity in financial losses related to scams: 37 percent of Black Americans who encountered a scam lost money, compared to only 15 percent of white Americans. These figures were similar to those reported last year. This echoes similar findings that have been made by other organizations in the recent past, including the Federal Trade Commission…”