"Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations" 29 January 2026

Chat & Ask AI, one of the most popular AI apps on the Google Play and Apple App stores that claims more than 50 million users, left hundreds of millions of those users’ private messages with the app’s chatbot exposed, according to an independent security researcher and emails viewed by 404 Media. The exposed chats showed users asked the app “How do I painlessly kill myself,” to write suicide notes, “how to make meth,” and how to hack various apps. 

The exposed data was discovered by an independent security researcher who goes by Harry...Harry said that he had access to 300 million messages from more than 25 million users in the exposed database, and that he extracted and analyzed a sample of 60,000 users and a million messages...Chat & Ask AI is a “wrapper” that plugs into various large language models from bigger companies users can choose from, Including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google’s Gemini...

...Chat & Ask AI is made by Turkish developer Codeway. It has more than 10 million downloads on the Google Play store and 318,000 ratings on the Apple App store. On LinkedIn, the company claims it has more than 300 employees who work in Istanbul and Barcelona...

...“We take your data protection seriously—with SSL certification, GDPR compliance, and ISO standards, we deliver enterprise-grade security trusted by global organizations,” Chat & Ask AI’s site says. Harry disclosed the vulnerability to Codeway on January 20. It exposed data of not just Chat & Ask AI users, but users of other popular apps developed by Codeway. The company fixed the issue across all of its apps within hours, according to Harry...

...Codeway did not respond to a request for comment...