{"id":3582,"date":"2026-09-19T19:25:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/gemini-went-rogue-hacked-three-companies-and-google-hid-it\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:25:03","slug":"gemini-went-rogue-hacked-three-companies-and-google-hid-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/gemini-went-rogue-hacked-three-companies-and-google-hid-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vector illustration of the Google Gemini logo.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Illustration: The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25290334\/STK255_Google_Gemini_D.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn&rsquo;t disclose the incident until the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/gemini-hacked-three-companies-in-first-known-breakout-by-googles-ai-5c0baba2?mod=rss_Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em> approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model&rsquo;s cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <em>WSJ<\/em>, Google didn&rsquo;t disclose the hack because it didn&rsquo;t consider it to be an \u00ab\u00a0example of model misalignment.\u00a0\u00bb The company said that it was an instance of \u00ab\u00a0mistaken identity,\u00a0\u00bb and once the model realized it had brute-forced its way into a real company by guessing a password, it stopped. \u00ab\u00a0In th \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/997795\/google-gemini-rogue-ai-hack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn&rsquo;t disclose the incident until the Wall Street 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