๐ง Inside the Scale AI Data Leak: When Google Docs Became a Breach Point
SYBER SECURE How a simple sharing mistake exposed confidential AI projects from Google, Meta, and xAI ๐️ SHUBHRA • 26 June 2025 • Cybersecurity & AI What if the secrets behind AI models like Google Bard and xAI’s Project Xylophone were just a click away—open for anyone to view or even edit? ๐ Read in Hindi That’s exactly what happened in a stunning lapse of digital security by Scale AI , a key player in the AI data-labeling space. In June 2025, thousands of confidential documents were discovered publicly accessible—and editable—via Google Docs, exposing sensitive information from top clients like Google, Meta, and OpenAI , along with personal details of human contractors. This wasn’t the work of sophisticated hackers. It was the result of something alarmingly simple: misconfigured document sharing . And the consequences? Massive—and far-reaching. ๐ What Is Scale AI? Scale AI is a San Francisco–based data annotation and AI infrastructure co...