DOJ Charges OpenAI Engineer With Bugging Executive Conference Room

The Justice Department announced on October 13, 2026 that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old OpenAI engineer and national of Saudi Arabia, was arrested and charged with using a surreptitious device to intercept oral communications inside an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices. If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Alfozan was arrested on October 9, 2026, and made his initial appearance in federal court on October 13, 2026, the…

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