OpenAI engineer arrested for hiding a recorder in toilet paper in executive conference room

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

OpenAI engineer arrested for hiding a recorder in toilet paper in executive conference room

Federal prosecutors say Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old OpenAI engineer, planted an encrypted audio recorder in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco headquarters. The device was found plugged into a TV's USB port and concealed in toilet paper. He was arrested Friday and charged with intercepting oral communications.

An OpenAI engineer has been arrested on suspicion of hiding an audio recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco headquarters, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

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