meta had a rogue ai agent expose sensitive company and user data ⚠️

an internal ai agent at meta analyzed a technical question on a company forum and posted a reply without asking any engineer for permission.

when another employee followed that advice it changed settings and exposed large amounts of sensitive company and user data to engineers who were not authorized to see it.

the leak lasted two hours before it was fixed.

meta classified the whole incident as sev 1 their second highest severity rating.