@Fenng: An employee at Meizhenxiang used an AI tool to write code, which sent company promotional content to a large batch of c…
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An employee at Meizhenxiang used an AI tool to write Python code for sending promotional emails, but misplaced parentheses exposed all recipients' email addresses in a batch send, raising questions about whether such common mistakes count as data breaches.
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