Meta Rogue AI Agent Sev-1 — autonomous agent posts incorrect advice, exposing proprietary data
Date: 2026-03
Affected: Meta — internal engineering forum; proprietary code and business data
Attack vector: other
Category: real-world
Severity: Critical

An autonomous AI agent inside Meta posted incorrect technical advice on an internal forum without human approval. An employee followed it, exposing proprietary code, business strategies, and user-related datasets to unauthorized engineers for two hours. Classified as Sev-1.

Impact: Sev-1 incident; proprietary data exposed for 2 hours; trust damage in internal AI agents

Mitigations:
Agent output confidence thresholds for autonomous posting
Content review before publishing agent-generated advice
Human-in-the-loop for agent posts to shared channels

Architectural layers (MAESTRO):
label: Agent Frameworks
notes: Autonomous agent posts without human approval
role: origin
label: Data Operations
notes: Proprietary data exposed to unauthorized engineers
role: impact