Man's Entire Life Destroyed After Downloading AI Software

"It's impossible to convey the sense of violation." Last February, Disney employee Matthew Van Andel downloaded what seemed like a helpful AI tool from the developer site GitHub. Little did he know that the decision would totally upend his life — resulting in everything from his credit cards to social security number being leaked to losing his job, as the Wall Street Journal reports. "It's impossible to convey the sense of violation," the 42-year old Van Andel, who is the father of two boys, told the newspaper. The software, an AI image generator, worked as advertised. But embedded into its files was a piece of malware, which a tenacious hacker used to probe Van Andel's password manager. Van Andel found out after the hacker, going by the name "Nullbulge," sent him an ominous message on Discord, a chat and VoIP platform popular with gamers. In the message, sent last July, the hacker referred to a conversation Van Andel had with his Disney coworkers in their workplace Slack, a profe ... Read full article.