{"id":374238,"date":"2026-04-04T06:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374238\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:15:09","slug":"meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-investigating-data-breach-at-ai-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374238\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Pauses Work With Mercor, Investigating Data Breach at AI Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has paused its work <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mercor-pays-million-per-day-human-contractors-training-ai-ceo-2025-10\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with Mercor<\/a> and is investigating after a recent data breach at the AI training startup, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>\n                          Loading audio narration&#8230;\n                        <\/p>\n<p>Mercor, which was valued at <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ai-agents-failed-consulting-tasks-mercor-ceo-improving-replace-consultants-2026-2\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$10 billion in a funding<\/a> round in October, works with major tech companies like Meta to train AI models with the help of thousands of human contractors and experts. Wired <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-data-breach-puts-ai-industry-secrets-at-risk\/\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\" rel=\" nofollow noopener\">first reported on Friday<\/a> that Meta had paused all its work with the company.<\/p>\n<p>Meta declined to provide a comment.<\/p>\n<p>Mercor confirmed to Business Insider on Friday that the company had experienced a security breach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The privacy and security of our customers and contractors is foundational to everything we do at Mercor. We recently identified that we were one of thousands of companies impacted by a supply chain attack involving LiteLLM,&#8221; Mercor said in a statement, referring to the open source project LiteLLM. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our security team moved promptly to contain and remediate the incident,&#8221; the company added. &#8220;We are conducting a thorough investigation supported by leading third-party forensics experts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta has paused its work with Mercor and is investigating after a recent data breach at the AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-374238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}