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Technology · 9 April 2026

Meta freezes Mercor deal after 4TB of sensitive data leaked

Meta freezes Mercor deal after 4TB of sensitive data leaked

Meta has halted work with AI training data firm Mercor following a breach that exposed up to four terabytes of personal and professional information, two sources confirmed to Wired. The attack was traced to a compromised update of LiteLLM, an open-source library used by millions of AI developers. A hacking group claimed responsibility and began auctioning the stolen data on dark web forums.

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