The high-flying startup that provides AI training data to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta confirms it was hit by a “supply-chain attack.”
Mercor Data Breach | What You Need to Know
A massive data breach at AI startup Mercor exposes risks in AI supply chains, third-party tools, and data governance. Here’s what security teams need to know.
How a 40-Minute Window Brought Down a $10 Billion AI Startup: The Mercor Data Breach, Explained
A poisoned open-source package, a credential-stealing payload, and 4 terabytes of stolen data here’s what every AI company needs to learn…
AI company’s breached biometrics, ID document images make deepfake fraud easier | Biometric Update
Mercor, an AI company valued at $10B, has fallen victim of a major data breach which appears to include ID documents along with user face and voice biometrics.
Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.
Mercor’s 23-Year-Old Billionaire Founders Grapple With Employee Fraud And North Korean Infiltration
Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate earlier this year. Now it's confronting a wave of challenges, including an employee stealing money, security blunders and cultural growing pains.
Mercor Breach Linked to LiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack
A LiteLLM supply-chain compromise enabled attackers to harvest credentials and access internal environments at scale at Mercor. The firm was the first to confirm a
Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations
The disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an online library.
Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations
The disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an online library.
Mercor on Twitter / X
The privacy and security of our customers and contractors is foundational to everything we do at Mercor. We recently identified that we were one of thousands of companies impacted by a supply chain attack involving LiteLLM.Our security team moved promptly to contain and…— Mercor (@mercor_ai) March 31, 2026
Top AI Security Incidents of 2025 Revealed | Adversa AI
Discover how AI systems are being hacked in the wild — from prompt injection to agent abuse — with real breaches, lessons, and defenses in Adversa AI’s 2025 report.
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
Haotian AI : Providing Deepfake AI For Scam Bosses - Frank on Fraud
An advertisement for Haotian AI, a company that provides face-changing software on Telegram, shows they mean business. “We have an R&D team of hundreds of programmers and dozens of servers to serve you.” The braggy advertisement, which just might be directed at Pig Butchering bosses running scam compounds in Southeast Asia, reveals the extent of […]
OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering ‘unprecedented’ breach at startup
OpenAI said that the breakout was “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities,” and that it was reinforcing its safeguards.
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing | CNN Business
Add Meta to the list of companies with AI agents going rogue. An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday.
