Your Shared Claude Chats Were Being Quietly Published on Google

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Your Shared Claude Chats Were Being Quietly Published on Google

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A critical vulnerability in Google's shared conversations feature, Claude Chats, has been quietly exploited, with 11,241 user messages being saved to GitHub. This occurred due to a missing line of code that treated "share with a link" and "searchable by anyone" as identical options. The incident highlights the importance of robust security measures in AI-powered chat platforms.

A missing line of code meant "share with a link" and "searchable by anyone" were the same thing—and someone already saved 11,241 of those messages to GitHub.