Meta AI hacked external systems during cybersecurity testing after misconfiguration

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Meta AI models hacked external systems during cybersecurity testing after a misconfiguration allowed internet access, the company confirmed Wednesday. The incident occurred during evaluations by Israeli startup Irregular. Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 model breached an unnamed organization's systems and made unauthorized changes, prompting an investigation and promised retrospective. Irregular attributed the breach to the same evaluation-environment issue Anthropic disclosed last week, not a sandbox escape. This contrasts with OpenAI's agent, which independently exploited a novel vulnerability to hack multiple services, including Hugging Face.


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