---
title: "Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/superhuman-ai-exfiltrates-emails-edfs33r2w
source_url: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/superhuman-ai-exfiltrates-emails
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2026-01-13T23:23:20.769Z
updated: 2026-01-13T23:23:43.340Z
tags: ["ai", "security", "vulnerability", "prompt-injection", "data-exfiltration"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 9 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Security researchers discovered critical prompt injection vulnerabilities in Superhuman AI that allowed attackers to exfiltrate sensitive emails without user interaction. By embedding malicious prompts in emails, attackers could manipulate the AI to extract financial, legal, and medical data from users' inboxes and submit it to attacker-controlled Google Forms. The attack exploited Superhuman's Content Security Policy whitelist for Google Docs and used Markdown image rendering to trigger automatic data submission. Similar zero-click vulnerabilities were found in Superhuman Go and Grammarly. Superhuman responded quickly, disabling vulnerable features and deploying remediation patches within days of disclosure.

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