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A hacker said they purloined personal details from countless OpenAI accounts-but scientists are skeptical, and the company is examining.

OpenAI says it's investigating after a hacker claimed to have actually swiped login qualifications for 20 million of the AI company's user accounts-and put them up for sale on a dark web forum.

The pseudonymous breacher posted a cryptic message in Russian marketing "more than 20 million gain access to codes to OpenAI accounts," calling it "a goldmine" and offering possible buyers what they claimed was sample information containing email addresses and passwords. As reported by Gbhackers, the full dataset was being sold "for just a couple of dollars."

"I have more than 20 million gain access to codes for OpenAI accounts," emirking wrote Thursday, according to a translated screenshot. "If you're interested, reach out-this is a goldmine, and Jesus concurs."

If legitimate, this would be the 3rd significant security occurrence for the AI company considering that the release of ChatGPT to the public. In 2015, [mariskamast.net](http://mariskamast.net:/smf/index.php?action=profile