A link to an AI nude and video generator briefly surfaced on a Kansas Attorney General website after an illicit file was uploaded through the office’s public submission portal.
The Attorney General’s Office did not know the link had appeared on its site until reporters alerted officials, reports the local media outlet KWCH.
The document contained a large button directing users to an external platform for creating AI-generated nude images. Officials say they are still reviewing how the submission was processed through the online system.
Granicus, the third-party service behind the government portal, says the incident was not a system breach. Granicus provides online form tools used by thousands of state and local agencies to collect resident feedback, service requests and public communications.
Says Granicus,
“We are aware of reports regarding illicit content being uploaded through government websites. Among the government agencies mentioned in these reports, a small subset are Granicus customers.
There has been no breach of Granicus systems or products, nor exposure of any data. In the few cases affecting Granicus customers, an individual (or individuals) attached illicit content to a public form they submitted through a government web portal intended for communicating resident feedback or service requests. The attachment was then indexed by Google and other web crawlers, causing it to appear in search results. While the above feature was intended by governments to provide transparency and good customer service, it has been abused in these instances.
Granicus takes this abuse very seriously and has implemented a block on our security platform to ensure that uploaded documents are no longer publicly reachable.”
Officials have removed the link, but have yet to provide further details on the portal abuse.
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