Meta claims its own AI also hacked into a third-party service during testing - Engadget

Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI, all used the same testing partner. Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 AI model accessed the internet from its supposed-to-be isolated testing environment and hacked into a third-party service. Andy Stone, Meta's spokesperson, has confirmed the incident to Bloomberg after The Information reported about the breach. Stone said the model was able to access the internet due to a misconfiguration in the testing environment by the company's evaluation partner Irregular. After gaining access to the internet, it then exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, "in a matter similar to previously reported instances with other companies." It was also due to a misconfiguration by Irregular that Anthropic's models were able to leave their testing environment and hack into three organizations. When the company announced the incidents, Anthropic laid the blame at Irregular's feet. OpenAI also reported an incident separate to the Hugging Face hack, where its models were also able to access the internet because of, you guessed it, the same testing partner. Irregular calls itself the "first frontier security lab" with the "mission of protecting the world in the time of