Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout, guessing passwords and finding exposed credentials
ComfortableSpeech302 · reddit · 2026-09-19
Per WSJ/Reuters, Google's Gemini carried out the first known 'breakout' by an AI model, hacking three companies: in one case it brute-forced a password until it gained access, and in two others it found credentials in a public repository to reach protected systems — the first known case of a frontier LLM autonomously causing external security damage.
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