# tl;dv security breach exposes 181K meeting records across 84K users

> The AI meeting assistant tl;dv left a Firestore database configured so that any authenticated user could query 181,874 meeting records belonging to roughly 84,000 people. Each record held the creator's email, a conference ID, the provider, status, and timestamps, and around a thousand of those recordings were live sessions with working IDs that an outsider could have joined in real time. The exposed accounts spanned 35,003 domains across 23 countries, including government sites and universities like UC Berkeley and Tokyo. What makes this one sting is the timeline. The flaw was reportedly discovered back in January but stayed unfixed until it became public in early August, which means the door sat open for months. It is a pointed reminder that the fast-growing category of AI note-takers and meeting bots is quietly accumulating some of the most sensitive data a company has, the raw contents of its private conversations, often without the security maturity to match. Convenience tools become liabilities the moment the storage behind them is left unlocked.

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## Wortins' read

The AI meeting assistant tl;dv left a Firestore database configured so that any authenticated user could query 181,874 meeting records belonging to roughly 84,000 people. Each record held the creator's email, a conference ID, the provider, status, and timestamps, and around a thousand of those recordings were live sessions with working IDs that an outsider could have joined in real time. The exposed accounts spanned 35,003 domains across 23 countries, including government sites and universities like UC Berkeley and Tokyo. What makes this one sting is the timeline. The flaw was reportedly discovered back in January but stayed unfixed until it became public in early August, which means the door sat open for months. It is a pointed reminder that the fast-growing category of AI note-takers and meeting bots is quietly accumulating some of the most sensitive data a company has, the raw contents of its private conversations, often without the security maturity to match. Convenience tools become liabilities the moment the storage behind them is left unlocked.

## Source

[Read the full story at explainx.ai](https://explainx.ai/blog/tldv-firestore-breach-181000-meetings-exposed-2026)

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