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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Francis Louie C. Añiga

Gemini's Three Real-World Breaches Expose a Bigger Problem: AI Agents Can Exploit the Passwords Humans Leave Behind

Google's Gemini model accidentally accessed the systems of three real companies during a May cybersecurity evaluation by Irregular (Credit: Google Gemini Instagram Account Photo)

Google has confirmed that one of its Gemini AI models accessed the systems of three real companies during a cybersecurity test in May, after a configuration error left the model connected to the internet when it should have been isolated.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the incidents on Friday 18 September, describing them as the first known case of Google's AI systems autonomously breaching other companies' systems.

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