Meta suspends Muse sharing after sensitive documents turn up in shared chats
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What we know so far: Meta has paused the conversation-sharing feature in its Muse AI assistant after security researchers discovered thousands of links in public DNS records. Some of the links exposed sensitive business documents and personal financial information that anyone could access without logging in. Researchers at security firm Claroc traced the exposure to the way Muse generated its web addresses.
Each shared conversation had a hostname containing a descriptive title and a random identifier. Both could appear in searchable DNS records, giving researchers the information they needed to reconstruct the link and open the page.
"People have the ability to share specific Muse artifacts, which creates a page that can be accessed by those with the link," Muse spokesperson Tracy Clayton saidin a statement to The Verge. "However, we've paused...
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