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Cyber chief Gottumukkala accused of leaking official documents
Madhu Gottumukkala is the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the highest cyber-security office in the country.
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Thu, 29, Jan 2026
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CISA acting-director Madhu Gottumukkala / Wikimedia commons
President Donald Trump's interim-head of cyber-security Madhu Gottumukkala is accused of uploading sensitive contracting documents into a public version of ChatGPT.
The act came to light after multiple automated security warnings, aimed at unintentional disclosure of government material from federal networks, were triggered, according to Politico.
Gottumukkala is the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the highest cyber-security office in the country. The files he uploaded on ChatGPT, even though not 'Classified', were marked 'for official use only', highlighting that the information contained was sensitive and not for public release.
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The acting director had requested special permission from CISA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer to use ChatGPT, after joining the agency last May, a tool that was blocked for other DHS employees.
Inputs submitted by Gottumukkala to the publicly available version of ChatGPT are transmitted to OpenAI. Under OpenAI's data usage policies, such inputs may be utilized to enhance the system's performance and could indirectly contribute to the responses generated for other users.
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