India, Nov. 28 -- ChatGPT users around the world are receiving unexpected security alerts from OpenAI about a data breach. At first glance, the notification looks alarming, but the company has clarified that most users are completely unaffected. The incident stems from a breach at Mixpanel, a third party analytics provider used by OpenAI for tracking activity on its API dashboard, not the main ChatGPT product.

OpenAI explained the situation after publishing an advisory on its website. The company says it is notifying every subscriber in the interest of transparency, even though only a small subset of users may have had their data exposed. The breach did not involve OpenAI's own systems and did not compromise chat histories, passwords, AP...