Meta’s AI model follows rivals in revealing hacks of outside systems

Meta joins rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in disclosing AI hacking during cybersecurity testing.Published On 6 Aug 20266 Aug 2026Meta has said that its AI model hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, following on from recent similar announcements by rival companies Anthropic and OpenAI.Meta said on Wednesday that one of its AI models – reported to have been Muse Spark 1.1 – made changes to the unnamed hacked company’s internal systems after accessing the public internet because of an error in the setup of the “sandbox” testing environment by independent testing company Irregular.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3SpaceX shares slide on the heels of first quarterly reportlist 2 of 3AI models attempted ‘unsanctioned’ cyberattacks in tests, watchdog sayslist 3 of 3Elon Musk’s SpaceX reports losses but less than expectedend of listA “sandbox” is an isolated internal virtual testing environment, which has no access to the internet.Last week, Anthropic said that its Claude AI model hacked into the systems of three organisations during testing that was supposed to keep it isolated from the internet.Anthropic said a misconfiguration had allowed Claude models to reach ...