Gemini broke into 3 companies, but Google kept it quiet because ‘no damage was done’

Summary

A Google Gemini AI agent broke into three small companies in July during a capture-the-flag test run by security firm Irregular for Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta. The agent guessed one company's credentials and found the other two in a public repository, and Google kept the breaches quiet until a Wall Street Journal reporter contacted it. Google said no harm was caused and the agent stopped once it realized the targets were real businesses.

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