1.3M SSNs leaked to AI apps
There were 1.3 million instances last year of social security numbers being leaked to AI applications, often by employees innocently using AI tools at work.
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TWiT 1092: You Brought a Knife to a Wolf Fight - Apple Accuses OpenAI of Trade Secret Theft
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Jul 13, 2026
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Sponsor: Zscaler Zero Trust AI Security
At 1:36:27 · chapter starts 1:34:50
The Zscaler ad segment covers the dual risk landscape of enterprise AI adoption: malicious actors using AI to craft indistinguishable phishing lures and automate data extraction, plus innocent employees inadvertently leaking social security numbers and confidential data to AI tools (1.3 million SSN leaks last year). Zscaler's Zero Trust Plus AI architecture is presented as protection against both threat vectors. A testimonial from Siva, security director at Swara, describes how Zscaler's inline monitoring catches AI-enabled threat activity before it can execute. The platform handles half a trillion daily transactions and carries a net promoter score 1.5x the SaaS average. Visit zscaler.com/security.
40% of Global 2000 use Zscaler
Roughly 40% of the Global 2000 companies use Zscaler's cloud security platform, which processes half a trillion transactions in a single day.
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