Hacks & Breaches · October 2026Gaffe level: Feral
Meta's AI Share Links Exposed Thousands of Chats Through Their Titles
Meta's Muse let users share conversations through links meant to be unguessable, but it put each conversation's title in the URL's subdomain, where public DNS records it. Security firm Claroc enumerated about 6,800 share links with a single query and found a small-business loan application, a bank fraud alert with a partial account number, an internal revenue review, and a staff vacation calendar. Meta paused the sharing feature.
Source: Ars Technica
Blind Veterans Ran a 10-Miler With AI Glasses, and Now Every Blind Veteran Gets a Pair Free
Eight runners including blind Army veterans Roosevelt Morring, Rob Sanchas and Shawntina Gibson finished the Army Ten-Miler in heavy rain wearing Meta AI glasses that described the world around them. Meta committed to giving free Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to every blind veteran in America, more than 130,000 people.
Source: Lighthouse Guild