Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000

Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000

The Hacker News · Sep 01, 2026

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Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000
Security September 1, 2026

METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced "Meter"), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for their ability to carry out long-horizon, agentic tasks, disclosed that it suffered "two notable security incidents" where external actors attempted to gain unauthorized access to its systems. No sensitive information is believed to

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