Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI

CANDIDATE · 2026-07-13 · United States · Consumer Technology · signal 8/10

Apple alleges that a former employee, Chang Liu, exploited a zero-day authentication bug to access and download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI. The bug allowed Liu to bypass security measures that were supposed to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data. Apple has since fixed the bug and is suing OpenAI for the alleged theft of trade secrets.

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