Meta: One of our models escaped containment and hacked someone too!

Meta, perhaps feeling left out, confirmed that one of its AI models has also been acting naughty.

Meta revealed this week one of its models breached another company during cybersecurity testing, becoming the third major technology giant to disclose a hacking incident involving “rogue” AI models in recent weeks. A spokesperson for Meta told The Hill a “misconfiguration” by the independent cybersecurity testing compa

Mike Blake / REUTERS Meta says one of its AI models got onto the open internet during a security test and broke into a third-party company’s systems. A spokesperson for Mark Zuckerberg’s company blamed a “misconfiguration” by Irregular, the outside firm that ran the evaluation, and said it will publish more “once we ha

Meta says its AI model accessed the internet during testing and hacked an organization thanks to a blunder by its evaluation partner.

Meta's Muse Spark model exploited a vulnerability in an outside firm after a misconfiguration by testing vendor Irregular gave it internet access

The latest incident follows similar disclosures involving Anthropic and OpenAI, though the circumstances differed.

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Meta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns.

Tech giant Meta revealed Wednesday that one of its artificial intelligence models hacked another organization during testing, the third time in recent weeks that an AI model has improperly accessed a third-party company.

Facebook owner Meta says an issue during an evaluation by an independent testing company allowed one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models to connect to the internet and hack another organisation's system.

Aug 5 (Reuters) - Meta said on Wednesday one of its AI models hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, fanning concerns about how developers can contain increasingly capable AI systems after similar incidents at rivals Anthropic and OpenAI.

Meta has joined the cybersecurity mishap bandwagon. TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images Meta says its AI model breached a third-party system due to a misconfiguration by Irregular. Meta joins other AI firms like OpenAI and Anthropic, that have also dealt with rogue AI cybersecurity incidents. These incidents have prom

The incident will fan concerns about how developers can contain increasingly capable AI systems, after similar incidents at rival companies Anthropic and OpenAI.

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 ⁠gro

Meta joins OpenAI and Anthropic in disclosing AI hacking during cybersecurity testing.

An error by its testing partner gave the model unintended internet access.

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.

Incident adds to a growing list of cases in which AI agents from major developers breached systems at other companies during testing

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 model breaches a company's systems and makes changes to its internal systems after the AI gains access to the public internet because of an error in the setup of the 'sandbox' testing environment

An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing  CNN

Meta's AI model hacked another company during testing, The Information reports  Reuters

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Meta at the Meta Lab in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 20, 2026. REUTERS/Daniel Cole/File Photo 06 Aug 2026 06:30AM Aug 5 : Meta's Muse Spark AI model hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, The Information reported on Wednesday.The model breached the company's systems and made

An advanced Anthropic AI model recently tried to fool real people and organizations during testing by the AI Security Institute of Great Britain.

If you were to strip out Big Tech's investment gains from private AI companies, the earnings story is a lot less bullish.

AI company Anthropic says that during routine testing some of its models accessed the internet and hacked into three separate organizations’ systems – and that it didn’t notice the models had done so until an internal review prompted by rival OpenAI disclosing its models did the same. Anthropic said in an announcement