Meta says its AI hacked another company during cybersecurity test

Meta is the latest tech company to share that its AI model hacked into another company's systems, marking the third such incident in recent weeks.

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

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

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.

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

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

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