Four AI lab breaches were caused by a single underlying issue, Irregular says
Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the World Economic Forum Credit: WEF/Greg Beadle Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing. Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for Bloomberg, which updated its story to place Google alongside OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The important part is what the testing vendor said next.
- ▪Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the World Economic Forum Credit: WEF/Greg Beadle Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing.
- ▪Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for Bloomberg, which updated its story to place Google alongside OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta.
- ▪The important part is what the testing vendor said next.
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| Publication time | Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:43:32 +0000 |
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the World Economic Forum Credit: WEF/Greg Beadle Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing. Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for Bloomberg, which updated its story to place Google alongside OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The important part is what the testing vendor said next. Irregular confirmed that the breaches disclosed by all four companies were part of the same issue, and that it told the relevant developers in late July. One incident, four announcements This has been reported for months as a string of separate breakouts by different models at different companies. TNW reported in August that a single testing vendor sat behind the OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta incidents.
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