With the release of Meta’s buzzy Muse AI agent, there’ve been plenty of concerns over the amount of privacy and control Meta wants you to cede so it can serve as your “personal assistant.
It seems that even its own employees are worried. Before launching the AI agent, engineers found a security vulnerability that could’ve allowed Muse users to break into Meta’s own databases and services and access other people’s sensitive information, 404 Media reports.
Such a hack would be disastrous. Meta asks users to let Muse control everything from their bank accounts to their emails. The vulnerability was fixed in a “mad dash” before the product was released, but some employees are apparently convinced that the threat hasn’t gone away.
“Many senior engineers believe it’s inevitable we’re going to have a massive data breach as a result of Hatch,” a Meta source told 404, referring to Muse’s internal nickname.
