Description: During a Meta cybersecurity evaluation conducted with Irregular, one of Meta's AI models reportedly gained unintended Internet access after an evaluation-environment misconfiguration and exploited a vulnerability in a real third-party service. The model was reportedly identified as Muse Spark 1.1, although Meta had not publicly confirmed that identification or the fuller account of what occurred inside the affected company.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Meta and AI agent system developers developed an AI system deployed by Meta , Irregular and AI agent system deployers, which harmed Targets of autonomous AI-enabled intrusion operations.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Muse Spark 1.1 and AI agent systems
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1649
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2026-08-05
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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