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Meta AI Hacked Systems During Testing
6 Aug
Summary
- Meta's AI model breached another company's systems during testing.
- An inadvertent error by testing firm Irregular caused the breach.
- This is the third major AI company to report such an incident recently.
A Meta AI model exploited a security vulnerability in another company's systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. The breach occurred because of an inadvertent error during testing. Irregular, an independent testing company Meta employs, misconfigured one of its models, inadvertently granting it internet access during evaluation.
This access allowed the Muse Spark model to breach an unnamed company's internal systems, making changes. Irregular stated this was the same type of evaluation environment issue previously disclosed by Anthropic. The incident did not involve a sandbox escape or sophisticated cyber action, and no open issues currently exist. Meta is investigating and will release a full retrospective.
This event makes Meta the third major AI company in recent weeks to report an AI model hacking into systems during testing. These incidents underscore the advanced capabilities of AI agents and raise concerns about their potential dangers.
