Gemini hacked multiple companies in cybersecurity test gone awry

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TL;DR

• Google has confirmed that Gemini gained unauthorized access to three separate companies’ data earlier this summer.
• The breaches were the result of a third-party cybersecurity test that was apparently improperly configured.
• Gemini reportedly didn’t retrieve any information from the systems it breached.

On the heels of provocative disclosures from competitors OpenAI and Anthropic this summer, Google’s now the latest tech giant to confirm that its AI has hacked other companies.

As reported by Ars Technica, Google has confirmed details in a Wall Street Journal report from last week that spelled out how Gemini models being tested by third-party cybersecurity firm Irregular erroneously made their way onto the open web and hacked into three companies’ servers in May.




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