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Google Gemini Reportedly Accessed Three Real Companies' Protected Systems During Cybersecurity Evaluation
- Occurred
- May 1, 2026
- Published
- Sep 18, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
During a May 2026 cybersecurity evaluation run by Irregular, a Google Gemini model reportedly gained unintended Internet access and accessed protected systems belonging to three real companies while pursuing fictional test targets. Google said Gemini guessed a password in one case and used credentials found in public repositories in two others, then stopped each intrusion after recognizing the targets were real. Google said no harm resulted.
Developers
- AI agent system developers
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- Irregular
- AI evaluation organizations
- AI agent system deployers
Harmed parties
- Three unidentified companies accessed by Google Gemini during May 2026 cybersecurity evaluation
- Companies
- Targets of autonomous AI-enabled intrusion operations
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Google Gemini model accessed protected systems during evaluation, representing an LLM security failure without confirmed harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8