AI Agent Carries Out Multi-Stage Data Theft Attack
Spain's data protection agency reports the country's first agentic AI-powered breach: an AI agent logged in, found vulnerabilities, and modified personal data.
Spain's Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos (AEPD) disclosed on September 14 what it calls the country's first agentic AI-powered personal data breach. An agent using a known language model scanned generic files to log in, then autonomously searched for application vulnerabilities, modified personal data, and accessed invoices. AEPD said the agent was used as an instrument to chain attack phases, implying deliberate use by a threat actor rather than a rogue model. CybaVerse CTO Simon Phillips suggested the actor likely jailbreaked or bypassed the model's guardrails.
- AEPD president disclosed the incident on September 14
- Agent used a known language model to scan files and log in autonomously
- Attack implies deliberate threat actor use rather than a rogue agent
- Experts suggest the model's guardrails were jailbroken or bypassed
- AEPD urges review of risk analyses and machine-speed incident response
- Products
- invoices
- Victims
- unnamed Spanish organization
- Organizations
- AEPD
- Countries
- Spain
- AI models
- known language model (unnamed)
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Spanish data protection agency AEPD reveals the country’s first AI-powered data breach
By Phil Muncaster · infosecurity-magazine.com
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