Abdulrahman Alfozan
- TYPE
- Person
- SIGNALS
- 7
- FIRST SEEN
- Oct 13, 2026
- LAST SEEN
- Oct 28, 2026
- ALSO KNOWN AS
- Abdul Alfozan
Recent signals
- A US federal grand jury indicts OpenAI engineer and Saudi national Abdulrahman "Abdul" Alfozan on a felony charge of interception of oral communications (Sarah Brager/San Francisco Chronicle) Oct 28, 2026
- OpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in Custody Oct 19, 2026
- Filing: US prosecutors say OpenAI suspect Abdulrahman Alfozan maintained frequent WhatsApp contact in 2025 and 2026 with an unnamed Saudi Royal Family member (Dan Mangan/CNBC) Oct 19, 2026
- Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife, and a family member booked one-way tickets from the US to Saudi Arabia for October 12; the FBI arrested him on October 9 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) Oct 15, 2026
- Profile of Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national the FBI arrested after OpenAI found a recording device; he has deep ties to Saudi officials and tech investors (Financial Times) Oct 14, 2026
- Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI staffer charged with bugging a conference room, used a Seeed Xiao ESP32-S3 Sense dev board; a website sells it for $14 (Bloomberg) Oct 13, 2026
- OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room Oct 13, 2026