Madhu Gottumukkala, acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), uploaded sensitive government contracting documents marked "for official use only" to ChatGPT. This action raised multiple automated security alerts designed to prevent unauthorized disclosure of federal files. The incident, reported by Politico, has drawn scrutiny from officials at the Department of Homeland Security, who are investigating the potential security risks stemming from these uploads. Gottumukkala was granted an exception to use ChatGPT during a time when other CISA employees were not allowed to access the tool. This decision has raised concerns about the handling of sensitive information within the agency. Although the documents were unclassified, sharing them with a public AI model is risky; it could enable the model to incorporate that data, which might later be accessible to other users. Before his appointment to CISA, Gottumukkala served as South Dakota's chief information officer under Governor Kristi Noem. His tenure at CISA has been marked by controversy, including a failed counterintelligence polygraph test, which the Department of Homeland Security later described as "unsanctioned." Following this incident, six career staff members were suspended from accessing classified information, further highlighting the ongoing issues within the agency's leadership.