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title: "Abdulrahman Alfozan"
type: entity
entity_type: person
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/people/abdulrahman-alfozan
updated: 2026-10-28T11:35:02.000Z
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# Abdulrahman Alfozan

Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/people/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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/a-us-federal-grand-jury-indicts-openai-engineer-and-saudi-national-093ad883) (Oct 28, 2026)
- [OpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in Custody](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/openai-engineer-accused-of-spying-on-executives-ordered-to-remain-in-280ea77d) (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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/filing-us-prosecutors-say-openai-suspect-abdulrahman-alfozan-21f85230) (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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/filing-abdulrahman-alfozan-his-wife-and-a-family-member-booked-one-way-c0c8ed77) (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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/profile-of-abdulrahman-alfozan-a-saudi-national-the-fbi-arrested-after-6fa03543) (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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/filing-abdulrahman-alfozan-the-openai-staffer-charged-with-bugging-a-df06929a) (Oct 13, 2026)
- [OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/openai-employee-arrested-for-allegedly-planting-a-bug-in-a-conference-6f10b31f) (Oct 13, 2026)

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