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AI Agent Reportedly Exploited Application Vulnerabilities to Modify Personal Data and Access Invoices in Breach Reported to Spanish Data Protection Authority
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In brief
An AI system built by Large language model developers and AI agent system developers and deployed by Threat actors, Cybercriminals and 2 others allegedly harmed Victims of automated cybercrime, Privacy and 4 others.
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- Not classified
- Occurred
- Coverage
- 4 reports
What happened
An unnamed organization reportedly notified Spain's data protection authority that a third party used an AI agent powered by a known language model to carry out a multistep intrusion that resulted in unauthorized changes to personal data and access to invoices. The AEPD said the case remains under review and has not identified the organization, attacker, AI system, attack date, or number of affected people.
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News reports (4)
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Threat actors Cybercriminals AI agent system deployers Agentic threat actors
- Alleged developer
- Large language model developers AI agent system developers
- Alleged harmed party
- Victims of automated cybercrime Privacy Organizations Organization affected by AI-agent data breach reported to AEPD Information security Enterprise IT systems
AI systems implicated
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Source record: incident #1693 on the AI Incident Database · all 4 reports