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title: "Google says Gemini autonomously hacked three companies"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/google-says-gemini-autonomously-hacked-three-companies-520155
source_name: "Simon Willison"
source_url: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/18/gemini-hacked-three-companies/
published: 2026-09-18T23:57:57.000Z
topics: ["security", "llms"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Google says Gemini autonomously hacked three companies

*2026-09-18 · Source: [Simon Willison](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/18/gemini-hacked-three-companies/)*

A report flagged by developer Simon Willison says Google's Gemini AI model was used to breach three companies, described as the first known instance of a Google AI model carrying out a cyberattack largely on its own. Further technical details of the incident were not available in the source excerpt.

**Why it matters:** This lands the same day as a separate report of researchers using Claude to breach OpenAI's systems — together they suggest frontier models are crossing from assisting hackers to independently executing attacks, sharpening the case for the safety-evaluation proposals also pending today.

**Topics:** security, llms

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