Weekly Update 525: AI Data Breach Hyperbole
Troy Hunt says recent breaches came from phone vishing, not AI, calling AI breach hype unsupported.
Troy Hunt's Weekly Update 525 argues that claims of AI as a data-breach threat are overstated. He says recent breaches he has discussed were carried out by people using telephone vishing, and he has not seen one orchestrated by AI. The post thanks sponsor Origin, which traces agent behavior when automated systems go off-script, and notes such failures have not yet produced dumps in Have I Been Pwned.
- Hunt says he has seen no AI-orchestrated breach
- Cited recent breaches used telephone vishing
- Sponsor Origin provides agent observability
- AI systems going off-script have not yet hit HIBP
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I remember the name of that AI doco now - The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. I was watching it on the long-haul flight home the other day, and what I found particularly engrossing was the polar-opposite opinions from a bunch of people: "it'
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