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Sears Exposed AI Chatbot Phone Calls and Text Chats to Anyone on the Web

ID: 818b8659-93d0-5861-b10f-cd5b3cb84e8d

STIX ID: report--818b8659-93d0-5861-b10f-cd5b3cb84e8d

Feed Name: WIRED Security

Threat Score
68/100

Date Published: 2026-03-17

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess

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Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered three publicly accessible Sears Home Services databases containing approximately 3.7 million chat logs and 1.4 million audio files and transcripts from 2024–2025. The exposed records included sensitive personal information such as customer names, phone numbers, home addresses, appliance and repair details, and bilingual chat content; Transformco secured the databases after disclosure, and it remains unknown whether the data was accessed by others.

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