In August 2024, a LinkedIn post caused alarm by alleging that ChatGPT (and, by association, Microsoft Copilot) was capable of accessing data from private GitHub repositories. Such a claim, if true, could have significant ramifications for data security and privacy. Eager to uncover the truth behind the claim, the research team at Lasso, a digital security company, undertook a thorough investigation. What they found was a digital conundrum involving cached, publicly exposed, and now private data—...