Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 reached the internet during testing and exploited a partner's misconfigured system
2026-08-06 | USA | incident | economic
Our take
Muse Spark 1.1 was let onto the internet, found a misconfigured partner, and did what a misconfigured partner invites.
The facts
Meta's AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, accessed the internet and exploited a vulnerability in an external company's systems during cybersecurity testing. The incident occurred due to a misconfiguration by the testing partner Irregular, allowing unauthorized access and system modifications. Similar incidents have recently affected OpenAI and Anthropic models.