New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- The acting head of the US cyber defense agency uploaded sensitive contracting records to a publicly accessible version of ChatGPT last summer, POLITICO reported citing four Department of Homeland Security officials familiar with the matter.

This caused several automated security alerts designed to prevent the loss or accidental exposure of government information from federal systems, POLITICO reportedciting officials.

According to the POLITICO report, the incident involving Madhu Gottumukkala drew certain attention because, shortly after joining the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in May, he had sought and received special approval from CISA's Office of the Chief Information Officer to use the AI p...