Google says Gemini AI model breached real systems in security test

Google's Gemini AI model accessed multiple systems by guessing login credentials during a security test conducted in May. The company discovered these breaches in July.

AF Agence France-PresseSouth China Morning PostFiled 2026-09-19 · 04:02 GMTLean · Center-RightRead · 1 min

Google says Gemini AI model breached real systems in security test

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Google's Gemini AI model accessed multiple systems by guessing login credentials during a security test conducted in May. The company discovered these breaches in July. According to Heather Adkins, Google's vice-president of security engineering, the AI found public information online and used it to guess credentials for websites it believed were part of the evaluation. These incidents occurred during the same tests that previously led to disclosed breaches by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Platforms. The transgressions raise safety concerns regarding AI cybersecurity.

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The model found public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it believed were part of the test.

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The AI security vendor Irregular conducted tests that led to breaches disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Platforms.

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The breaches occurred in May and were discovered by Google in July.

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Google's Gemini AI model breached real systems by guessing login credentials during a security test.

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Google’s consumer AI model Gemini hacked multiple systems through guessing login credentials, the company said, the latest case of rogue AI cybersecurity transgressions, which have generated safety concerns.The hacks, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, took place in May and were discovered by Google in July.“In a standard evaluation, the model found public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test,” Heather Adkins, Google’s vice-president of security engineering, said in a statement on Friday.The hacks happened during the same tests run by the AI security vendor Irregular that led to breaches previously disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta Platforms.

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