Researchers got Gemini AI to leak Google Calendar data, they claim

Researchers got Gemini AI to leak Google Calendar data, they claim

By Matt Binder
Publication Date: 2026-01-21 21:32:00

Google’s AI assistant Gemini has surged to the top of AI leaderboards since the search giant’s latest update last month.

However, cybersecurity researchers say the AI chatbot still has some privacy problems.

Researchers with the app security platform Miggo Security recently released a report detailing how they were able to trick Google’s Gemini AI assistant into sharing sensitive user calendar data (as first reported by Bleeping Computer) without permission. The researchers say they accomplished this with nothing more than a Google Calendar invite and a prompt. 

The report, titled Weaponizing Calendar Invites: A Semantic Attack on Google Gemini, explains how the researchers sent an unsolicited Google Calendar invite to a targeted user and included a prompt that instructed Gemini to do three things. The prompt requested that Gemini summarize all of the Google…