Three's company: Meta says its AI agents went rogue during testing, too

Meta has joined the cybersecurity mishap bandwagon.

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Meta has joined a growing list of companies saying their models hacked into an external company's system during cybersecurity testing.In a statement on Thursday, the social media company said its Muse Spark model "exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, in a manner similar to previously-reported instances with other companies."The Meta spokesperson said the breach occurred because of a misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent company Meta uses for model testing. This led to the model accessing the internet during evaluation.Meta added that it learned of the incident when Irregular notified the company. It says it is investigating the incident and plans to issue a full retrospective once the company has all the details.The Information first reported on the Meta AI model incident on Wednesday. Irregular did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.Meta is the third AI giant to report such a rogue agent breach in the last few weeks.Late last month, open-source AI platform Hugging Face said that it had experienced a cybersecurity breach in which an AI agent had accessed some of its systems. OpenAI disclosed that two of its models escaped a test environment and were responsible for the rogue hack.