--- title: WSJ: Google officials confirmed to The Wall Street... description: Google confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that its Gemini AI model accidentally accessed the systems of three real companies during a simulated cybersecurity... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/wsj-google-officials-confirmed-to-the-wall-street-journal-that-gemini-entered-three-real-companies--ttrkjgfn3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: WSJ: Google officials confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that Gemini entered three real companies’ systems while running a cybersecurity test meant to target fictional infrastructure. Google also told that it did not consider the incident model misalignment because Gemini stopped after recognizing that it had entered real companies’ systems, and Google said the affected companies and federal authorities were notified. What happened is: Irregular (an AI security evaluation company) was running a simulated capture-the-flag cybersecurity test in which Gemini was supposed to attack a fictional company inside the test environment. The test environment was intended to be isolated from the public internet, but because of a configuration mistake, Gemini actually had internet access. | daily.dev og:description: Google confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that its Gemini AI model accidentally accessed the systems of three real companies during a simulated cybersecurity... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/wsj-google-officials-confirmed-to-the-wall-street-journal-that-gemini-entered-three-real-companies--ttrkjgfn3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tTrkJGfn3.png og:image:alt: WSJ: Google officials confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that Gemini entered three real companies’ systems while running a cybersecurity test meant to target fictional infrastructure. Google also told that it did not consider the incident model misalignment because Gemini stopped after recognizing that it had entered real companies’ systems, and Google said the affected companies and federal authorities were notified. What happened is: Irregular (an AI security evaluation company) was running a simulated capture-the-flag cybersecurity test in which Gemini was supposed to attack a fictional company inside the test environment. The test environment was intended to be isolated from the public internet, but because of a configuration mistake, Gemini actually had internet access. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Rohan Paul](https://daily.dev/sources/rohanpaul%5Fai) [Read on](https://api.daily.dev/r/tTrkJGfn3) Yesterday • From x.com  Rohan Paul @rohanpaul\_ai WSJ: Google officials confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that Gemini entered three real companies’ systems while running a cybersecurity test meant to target fictional infrastructure. Google also told that it did not consider the incident model misalignment because Gemini stopped after recognizing that it had entered real companies’ systems, and Google said the affected companies and federal authorities were notified. What happened is: Irregular (an AI security evaluation company) was running a simulated capture-the-flag cybersecurity test in which Gemini was supposed to attack a fictional company inside the test environment. The test environment was intended to be isolated from the public internet, but because of a configuration mistake, Gemini actually had internet access.  Comment Bookmark Copy Share your thoughts Post Share this post [](https://daily.dev/sources/rohanpaul%5Fai) [Rohan Paul](https://daily.dev/sources/rohanpaul%5Fai "https://daily.dev/sources/rohanpaul_ai") 9 Followers • 58 Upvotes #### Would you recommend this post? 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