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Security · 3h ago

2,000 hackers tried to break my AI assistant — here's what happened

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

An AI developer opened their assistant to public attacks, logging over 2,000 hacking attempts in a short period. The experiment revealed common attack vectors like prompt injection and data extraction. Most attempts failed, but the exercise highlighted critical vulnerabilities in LLM-based systems.

Meridian48 take
The real story isn't the number of attacks but how predictable and repetitive they were — a reminder that AI security still relies on basic hygiene, not magic.
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