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Spain's Privacy Watchdog Says the Robot Did the Breaking-In Itself

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The agent handled the reconnaissance, login and vulnerability hunting on its own, which is a faster intruder than most companies budget for.

What happened

Spain's data protection agency AEPD reported what it calls the country's first agentic AI-powered personal data breach. An attacker's agent, built on an unnamed language model, scanned files to log in, then searched for application vulnerabilities and used them to modify personal data and access invoices. The AEPD says the investigation is ongoing and details are limited.

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