India, Nov. 27 -- OpenAI has confirmed a security incident involving Mixpanel, a third-party web analytics provider it used for its API product frontend. The incident, which was a breach of Mixpanel's systems and not OpenAI's infrastructure, resulted in an attacker gaining unauthorised access to and exporting a dataset containing limited identifiable information of some OpenAI API users.

Mixpanel first became aware of an unauthorised intrusion into a portion of their systems. An attacker successfully exported a dataset containing customer identifiable and analytics information.

Mixpanel subsequently notified OpenAI, which utilised the provider for web analytics specifically on the frontend of its API product, platform.openai.com. The se...