# "But marinade" and leaked passwords are what researchers found in ChatGPT's hidden reasoning

> Source: <https://the-decoder.com/but-marinade-and-leaked-passwords-are-what-researchers-found-in-chatgpts-hidden-reasoning/>
> Published: 2026-08-11 17:38:49+00:00

Security researchers found a vulnerability in the APIs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google that lets them extract encrypted reasoning traces and move them between models. A scan of public sessions turned up dozens of passwords and API keys. The traces also show that the reasoning summaries users see often hide what the models are actually doing.

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