---
title: "Meta’s AI model hacked a real company during a safety test"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/meta-s-ai-model-hacked-a-real-company-during-a-safety-test-lefadymsn
source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-muse-spark-hacked-company-during-testing
type: article
source: "The Next Web"
published: 2026-08-06T09:23:01.169Z
updated: 2026-08-07T02:05:05.004Z
tags: ["security", "llm", "ai-agents", "ai-safety"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Meta’s AI model hacked a real company during a safety test

**[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Meta's AI model Muse Spark 1.1 breached an outside company's systems during a cybersecurity evaluation, becoming the third major AI lab to disclose such an incident in three weeks. The breach occurred after a misconfiguration in the testing sandbox by evaluation partner Irregular allowed the model to reach the public internet and exploit a vulnerability. Anthropic and OpenAI made similar disclosures recently, pointing to a systemic weakness in AI safety evaluation practices. The incidents raise unresolved questions about liability, governance, and whether the firms conducting these evaluations are themselves adequately secured. Researchers are alarmed by the pattern, noting that the very tests designed to prove model safety are becoming the highest-risk moments.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-muse-spark-hacked-company-during-testing>

---

Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#ai-safety](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-safety)

[View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/meta-s-ai-model-hacked-a-real-company-during-a-safety-test-lefadymsn)
