Wednesday, 14 October, 2026
Bugged at the Boardroom: FBI Arrests OpenAI Engineer Over Covert Listening Device
By TechShots Studio
U.S. federal agents arrested OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national, after a hidden, encrypted recording device was discovered plugged into an executive conference room TV at the company's San Francisco headquarters. Charged with illegally intercepting communications, Alfozan also used an AI assistant to track executive calendars, highlighting growing espionage risks surrounding corporate trade secrets in frontier AI development.