{"data":{"id":"71834a95-aca3-4cf6-b632-5c2b56bfc8eb","title":"Meta pauses employee monitoring program after data protections fail","summary":"Meta paused an employee monitoring program called the Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI) after employees bypassed its security protections to access restricted data, and then did so again even after Meta claimed to fix the vulnerability. The program collected sensitive data including keystrokes, mouse movements, screen content, private conversations, and performance information to train AI models. Security experts criticized Meta for deploying inadequate access controls (security measures that limit who can view data) on such highly sensitive information, even though the company had the resources to implement stronger protections.","solution":"According to Meta vice president Stephane Kasriel, the unauthorized access discovered on June 18 was closed \"within four hours,\" but \"the initial fix didn't stick, and access to the data had to be further locked down.\" Meta stated in an email that the program is \"pausing it while we investigate.\"","labels":["security","privacy"],"sourceUrl":"https://www.csoonline.com/article/4188623/meta-pauses-employee-monitoring-program-after-data-protections-fail.html","publishedAt":"2026-06-24T01:13:53.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"high","attackType":["data_extraction"],"issueType":"news","affectedPackages":null,"affectedVendors":["Meta"],"affectedVendorsRaw":["Meta"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001","classifierPromptVersion":"v3","cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-06-24T01:13:53.000Z","capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"moderate","impactType":["confidentiality","integrity"],"aiComponentTargeted":"training_data","llmSpecific":false,"classifierConfidence":0.92,"researchCategory":null,"atlasIds":null}}