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Meta AI breaches external firm during security testing sandbox error

NPR | By Huo Jingnan,

Scott Simon

Published August 8, 2026 at 4:43 AM PDT

Meta announced one of its models had hacked another company during a security test. It becomes the third company to announced such a security breach.

Huo Jingnan

Huo Jingnan is a reporter for NPR.

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Scott Simon

Scott Simon is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First.

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