OpenAI engineer arrested for planting hidden audio recorder in executive conference room
kimmonismus · x · 2026-10-14
Federal prosecutors arrested OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, on charges of intercepting oral communications after a recording device hidden in toilet paper was found plugged into a TV in an executive conference room. The device, installed around Sept. 28 and encrypted, was discovered Sept. 30; a second recorder was in his unattended bag. Surveillance footage shows him near the room despite lacking access.
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