- Genai tools like chatgpt redefining shade it risks in corporate environments, report finds
- Employees inmate PII/PCI in Genai tools, mostly from non -managed personal accounts
- Businesses are facing large blind spots in data leakage and compliance due to unattended Genai use, experts say
Chatgpt and other generative artificial intelligence (Genai) tools transform what “the risk of shade it” means new research has found as employees have become a little too open – and many have even provided the tool personally identifiable information (PII) or the debit card industry (PCI) that is willing.
Shadow It is the practice of using programs and apps in a business environment that was not approved or otherwise monitored by the IT security department. Employees often use apps that they are not allowed to because it is easy and practical thing as web-based image-to-pdf converters, WhatsApp, personal cloud storage solutions such as Dropbox and the like.
But research from Layerx claims that this opens up companies to all sorts of cyberrisks, from introducing malware and ransomware to corporate infrastructure, to leaking sensitive data via unprotected cloud storage or uploading classified documents to shadowy services.
Inserting secrets
The company’s latest company AI and SaaS Data Security Report 2025 found almost half (45%) of business employees now use generative AI in some form.
Of those, more than three -quarters (77%) have copied and inserted data into the tool, and almost a quarter (22%) has done the same with PII/PCI.
“With 82 percent of the pastes that come from non -managed personal accounts, companies have little or no visibility in what data is shared, creating a massive blind place for data leakage and observational risks,” the report said.
Furthermore, about two out of five files uploaded to generative AI sites also contains this type of information, while 39% of these uploads came from non-business accounts.
Chatgpt is by far the most popular Genai tool, with more than 90% of employees using it. The vast majority (about 83%) use only one tool. Other remarkable mentions include Gemini (15%), Claude (5%) and Copilot (about 3%).
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