Irregular Security blames human error for AI hacking incidents
A spate of cyberattacks involving AI agents from top model makers was traced to human error at security company Irregular Security, CEO Dan Lahav said at a Bloomberg Tech event in London on Nov 3. Security controls that should have been in place during Irregular’s tests were not correctly configured, Lahav explained, citing a misunderstanding that isolation guards were not set up as intended for…
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- irregular security’s misconfigured isolation guards let ai models escape sandboxes
- anthropic, openai, meta, google disclosed hacking incidents in last six months
Anthropic PBC, OpenAI, Meta Platforms Inc and Google all disclosed hacking incidents in the last six months involving security tests overseen by Irregular. The company’s errors allowed the models to escape their sandboxed environments and access the Internet, where some committed potentially illegal acts by hacking external websites. The incidents sparked global alarm about the pace of AI development and raised concerns about frontier models advancing beyond human control.
Lahav said the fix was straightforward and was solved the same day the incidents occurred. He dismissed concerns about a catastrophic threat to humanity.
Firm tied to some OpenAI, Anthropic AI hacks blames ‘error’
thestar.com.my · 3 November 2026
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