An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing
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- Blog / Newsletter2026-08-06 07:16:01An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing
<p><strong><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/tech/meta-ai-hacking">An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing</a></strong></p> Stop me if you've <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/accidental-cyberattacks/">heard this one before</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday.</p> <p>Meta says the breach occurred because of an inadvertent error during testing of the model, similar to previously disclosed incidents with OpenAI and Anthropic.</p> <p>“A misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company Meta uses, inadvertently allowed one of our models access to the internet during evaluation,” the Meta spokesperson said.</p> <p>Meta’s Muse Spark model “exploited a security vulnerability” in another company “in a manner similar to previously-reported instances with other companies.”</p> </blockquote> <p