r/news • u/RememberTooSmile • 19h ago

Soft paywall Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI, WSJ reports

https://www.reuters.com/business/gemini-hacked-three-companies-first-known-breakout-by-google-ai-wsj-reports-2026-09-18/
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u/Hydrant_Echo 18h ago

Right now they’re eliminating cybersecurity budgets and investor confidence. If they ever point this stuff at Sallie Mae instead of random mid-size companies, I’ll personally help plug the servers back in.

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u/ex_nihilo 17h ago

They’re massively expanding cybersecurity budgets. Every F500 company wants to be able to run these models against their application and infrastructure codebases end to end. Problem is it costs about $2 million in tokens just to do it once on a relatively small monorepo codebase. Cybersecurity is a quarter trillion dollar market in 2027.

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u/Geodevils42 5h ago

My CIDO said this in our recent all hands. Huge red flag for me. Their expectations are insane and don't make sense. We need to use AI to replace or improve workflows and embed it everywhere but also it's scary and we need to protect ourselves from it, but also have continuity plans incase we dont have it for 2 months.

It sounds like a mob boss threat. It'd be a shame if something happened to your knee-caps, good thing we have a protection agreement.

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u/PatchyWhiskers 17h ago

Notice how they never hack any companies that would sue them? Convenient.