AI agent orchestrates multistage personal-data breach in Spain
Spain’s data protection authority has disclosed its first notified personal-data breach in which an artificial intelligence agent allegedly carried out several stages of an intrusion, including vulnerability discovery, data modification and access to billing records. The Agencia Española de Protección de Datos said the incident involved an agent using a known large language model and marked a…
Spain’s data protection authority disclosed its first notified personal-data breach, involving an artificial intelligence agent that executed multiple stages of intrusion, including vulnerability discovery, data modification, and access to billing records. The incident, conducted using a known large language model, signified a significant shift in AI's operational use in cyberattacks, according to the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos.
The regulator, which did not identify the affected organization, AI model provider, attacker, or scale of compromised data, published the notification on September 14 after the organization reported the incident.
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