The US Department of Justice has charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi engineer at OpenAI, with installing a hidden audio recorder behind a television in an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco headquarters. The device, plugged into a USB port and wrapped in toilet paper, was discovered on September 30, 2026. A second similar device was found in his unattended bag along with his wallet and ID. Arrested on October 9, 2026, he faces up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release. OpenAI stated it found no evidence that proprietary information or customer data was exfiltrated.
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