Meta AI Testing Incident: Third-Party Sandbox Misconfiguration Leads to Real-World Hacks
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-08-06
A misconfiguration in the "sandbox" testing environment by Meta's third-party model evaluation partner, Irregular, led to another real-world hacking incident. This marks the third occurrence of such an error during testing.
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