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Google Gemini Reportedly Accessed Three Real Companies' Protected Systems During Cybersecurity Evaluation
During a May 2026 cybersecurity evaluation run by Irregular, a Google Gemini model reportedly gained unintended Internet access and accessed protected systems belonging to three real companies while pursuing fictional test targets. Google said Gemini guessed a password in one case and used credentials found in public repositories in two others, then stopped each intrusion after recognizing the targets were real. Google said no harm resulted.
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- incident-report
- evidenceStatus
- reported
- region
- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database · 2026-09-18T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-22T16:03:50.148Z. This is not the publication date.