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AI chatbot app leaked 300 million private conversations

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Jan 2026

Chat & Ask AI, a popular AI chatbot wrapper app with 50+ million users, had a misconfigured Firebase backend that exposed 300 million messages from over 25 million users. The exposed data included complete chat histories with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini -- including discussions of self-harm, drug production, and hacking. A broader scan found 103 of 200 iOS apps had similar Firebase misconfigurations.

Incident Details

Perpetrator:Platform Operator
Severity:Catastrophic
Blast Radius:300 million messages from 25+ million users exposed; sensitive personal conversations including self-harm and illegal activity discussions leaked