Just like any other online service, hackers can target and break into your accounts on popular AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. TechCrunch has created a comprehensive guide to help you protect yourself if you suspect someone has broken into your account on one of the internet’s most popular platforms, social networks, or
A man in Australia asked an AI agent to get him a spot in a class at his gym. Hacking the gym’s website and kicking someone out of the class who was already booked? That wasn’t in the prompt. As reported on Sunday by Australia’s ABC News, the person, named Andrew, used the popular agentic
Facebook owner Meta says an error during an evaluation by an independent testing company allowed one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models to connect to the internet and hack another organisation’s system. The announcement follows recent incidents across the AI industry, including breaches by OpenAI and Anthropic models, that have raised cyber-security concerns. A Meta
Two from OpenAI Cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a sandbox this week and hacked AI research platform Hugging Face in an effort to solve a security benchmark test. Additionally, this week researchers shed light on newly identified malware that is exploiting blind spots in AI software development infrastructure to capture logins and other sensitive data,
The co-founder of Hugging Face, a technology startup that was hacked after some of OpenAI’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went corruptHe said Thursday that the incident is “a wake-up call” for the industry. Thomas Wolf told the BBC’s Newsday radio program that “this will be one of the most common types of cyberattacks
When Lydia Peabody saw her friend pull out a flip phone at a party last year, she laughed. “I was like, ‘Girl, what are you doing with that thing? This has to be a joke!’” Peabody told TechCrunch. But it wasn’t just an accessory: Her friend was participating in Month Offline, a community challenge in