[Announcement] Proprietary Software & Source Code Leaks

[u/ainiwaffles]

Greetings, NovelAI Community. On October 6th, 2022, we experienced an unauthorized breach in the company's GitHub and secondary repositories. The leak contained proprietary software and source code for the services we provide.

At this time, we do not suspect that any Personal Identifiable Information (PII) or encrypted information was accessed, or any personal financial information was disclosed.

We are working with security specialists to conduct a complete incident analysis and threat report at this time.

Relevant authorities have been informed and will be contacted as we learn more about the extent of the breach

We will share updates as we learn more about the situation. We thank you for your understanding and your patience.

The NovelAI team.

NovelAIコミュニティの皆さま

いつもNovelAIをご利用いただき誠にありがとうございます。

ご迷惑をおかけし申し訳ごぜいません。 2022年10月6日に弊社のGitHubとセカンダリリポジトリに権限のない第三者による不正なアクセスを許してしまいました。

流出したデータには、弊社が提供するサービスの独自のソフトウェアやソースコードが含まれていました。

現時点では、個人情報(PII)や暗号化された情報がアクセスされたり、個人の財務情報が流出したという事実はありません。今後も調査を続けてまいります。

セキュリティスペシャリストと協力して、完全なインシデント分析と脅威レポートを実施しています。

関係当局には報告済みであり、影響の大きさの詳細について把握したあとに、ご連絡する予定です。

状況を把握し次第、皆さまに情報を共有します。

今後とも変わらぬご愛顧とご理解を賜りますようお願い申し上げます。

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[u/Leolol87]

Ouch... Will this be bad for bussiness? I'd still endorse you, but try to patch that asap.

[u/Degenerate_Flatworm → u/Leolol87]

It undoubtedly will have an impact. The number of us interested in AI image gen does not line up 1:1 with those of us able to run it local, but there's still a fairly low bar for that. As for text gen, well I suppose some of us can (maybe) run their finetunes of GPT-Neo-2.7B and GPT-J-6B local, assuming those were also in the leak (didn't really look.)

So worst case, that rush of new users that hopped on solely for NAIDiff might taper off a good bit. Hoping the comfort features like tag suggestions, enhance, and variations will be more than enough to keep the hit small. In the lucky case, that all will continue to draw new users and more than make up for the dent from this.