{"id":"thehackernews-230574babe48","seq":2928,"kind":"news","title":"Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge","url":"https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/ex-openai-engineer-detained-in-spy.html","permalink":"https://vulnpulse.app/items/thehackernews-230574babe48","summary":"A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office to allegedly steal sensitive secrets. In a new court filing Sunday, prosecutors revealed that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national, was \"in frequent communications via WhatsApp","severity":null,"techs":["openai"],"cves":[],"tags":[],"source":{"id":"thehackernews","name":"The Hacker News"},"published_at":"2026-10-20T05:53:16.000Z","fetched_at":"2026-10-21T16:17:48.024Z"}