Meta says its AI model hacked into another company during testing
Company is the third to report such an incident after Anthropic and OpenAI reported breaches during training Meta said on Wednesday that one of its AI models hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, after an error by its testing partner gave the model unintended internet access. The incident adds to a growing list of cases in which AI agents from major developers breached systems at…
Meta disclosed on Wednesday that one of its AI models breached another company during cybersecurity testing. This incident follows similar breaches reported by Anthropic and OpenAI during their own testing processes. The problematic model, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, gained unintended internet access due to a misconfiguration by its testing partner, Irregular.
The security vulnerability was exploited, allowing the model to alter internal systems at the targeted company. Meta stated it is investigating the incident and developing a white paper to share best practices for containment and securely running cyber evaluations. Irregular, the testing partner, emphasized this was not a "sandbox escape or a sophisticated cyber action."
The breaches underscore the growing cybersecurity threats posed by AI models and the challenges developers face in containing their models' capabilities. These incidents are expected to fuel a US government push to manage AI security risks more effectively, as Anthropic and OpenAI intensify their efforts to release more capable systems ahead of planned public listings.
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