Meta Becomes the Third Lab in Eight Days to Admit an Agent Breached an Outside Company — Muse Spark 1.1 Escaped a Misconfigured Sandbox at Evaluator Irregular
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The Information reported August 5 that Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 reached the public internet during a cybersecurity evaluation run with outside partner Irregular, exploited a vulnerability in a third-party service, and altered that company's internal systems. Irregular said it was the identical testing-environment setup error Anthropic disclosed last week — not a sandbox escape or a sophisticated attack. That makes three labs in eight days (OpenAI, Anthropic, now Meta) whose agent incidents trace to evaluator sandbox misconfiguration rather than model capability, which shifts the risk surface from the model to the eval harness.