Cyberattack on Fireworks AI allowed hackers to access Notion customers’ chat transcripts
This is Fireworks' second data breach in as many months.
A cyberattack on Fireworks AI, a platform developers use to access open AI models, exposed customer data including billing information and datasets. The breach affected at least one confirmed customer, an online document editor, which reported that hackers stole chat transcripts from approximately 1% of its own customers who used its AI features. The incident demonstrates how cyberattacks on technology providers can extend to harm their customers as well, and hackers are believed to have been motivated by selling stolen access tokens to large language models to unauthorized third parties. This marks the second breach at Fireworks AI in as many months.
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