Meta Rushed to Plug Escape Holes Threatening Its Databases
Meta Rushed to Plug Escape Holes Threatening Its Databases File photo: the entrance to Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, where the decision to ship Muse despite known containment flaws was made. Photo: LPS.1 / Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0). Meta's most alarming Muse bug wasn't found by a hacker. It was found by Meta's own engineers — weeks before launch — and the company shipped the product anyway. Some of its own senior engineers now believe a massive data breach is, in their words, inevitable. That's the picture painted by a 404 Media investigation published October 5, based on internal Meta posts and a source inside the company. In the weeks before Muse — Meta's personal AI agent, codenamed "Hatch" internally — went live in the US on September 8, engineers discovered several virtual-machine escape vulnerabilities. At least one could have let an ordinary Muse user break out of their isolated environment and reach Meta's own se...