Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Saudi National Caught by FBI Hiding Bug in Toilet Paper to Steal AI Secrets: Report

Saudi National Caught by FBI Hiding Bug in Toilet Paper to Steal AI Secrets: Report: 

A Saudi artificial intelligence engineer is facing federal charges after allegedly planting a bug inside one of America’s top technology labs.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi Arabian national and OpenAI engineer, on Friday for reportedly hiding an audio recording device in the company’s San Francisco executive conference room, the Department of Justice announced in a press release Tuesday. The arrest is the latest security incident at OpenAI, whose agents previously breached AI-startup Hugging Face in addition to other outside systems.

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