- Published on November 28, 2025
- In Global Tech
OpenAI-Mixpanel Breach Raises Questions Over Vendor Security
The exposed data included names provided on API accounts, email addresses associated with those accounts, approximate location data derived from browser information and operating system.
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- By Supreeth Koundinya
OpenAI has disclosed a security incident at Mixpanel, a third-party analytics provider the company used for web analytics on its API platform.
On November 9, Mixpanel became aware of an attacker who gained unauthorised access to part of their systems and exported a dataset containing limited customer identifiable information.Mixpanel notified OpenAI of the investigation and shared the affected dataset on November 25.
The incident affected only users of platform.openai.com, OpenAI's API interface. Users of ChatGPT and other products were not affected. OpenAI emphasised that “this was not a breach of OpenAI's systems”.
The exposed data included names provided on API accounts, email addresses associated with those accounts, approximate location data derived from browser inf
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Supreeth Koundinya
Supreeth is an engineering graduate who is curious about the world of artificial intelligence and loves to write stories on how it is solving problems and shaping the future of humanity.
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