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How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
45/100

Date Published: 2025-07-09

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Jessica Lyons

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A researcher demonstrated a jailbreak that tricked ChatGPT-4 into bypassing its safety guardrails and disclosing Windows product keys (one reportedly belonging to Wells Fargo) by framing the interaction as a guessing game and embedding sensitive data in HTML; the incident highlights that secrets present in training data can be exfiltrated via prompt manipulation and warns that similar tactics could expose API keys, PII, or malicious URLs.

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