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Meta AI Bug in Deployed Service Reportedly Allowed Potential Access to Other Users' Prompts and Responses

AI Incident Database · article · Jul 15, 2025 · UTC

A security researcher reported a vulnerability in Meta AI's deployed chatbot service that, under certain conditions, could allow an unauthorized user to view another user's prompts and AI-generated responses. The flaw reportedly involved guessable prompt IDs and insufficient server-side authorization checks. Meta reportedly fixed the issue in January 2025 and found no evidence of malicious exploitation, awarding the researcher a bug bounty.

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incident-report
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2024-12-26T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

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