{"id":1001176,"date":"2026-04-04T11:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001176"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:31:26","slug":"openai-anthropic-contractor-mercor-targeted-in-major-security-breach-what-data-was-stolen-who-carried-out-the-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/openai-anthropic-contractor-mercor-targeted-in-major-security-breach-what-data-was-stolen-who-carried-out-the-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI, Anthropic contractor Mercor targeted in major security breach \u2014 what data was stolen, who carried out the hack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup that provides data to major AI firms, including OpenAI and Anthropic, has confirmed that it was hit by a security breach that may have exposed sensitive company and user data.<\/p>\n<p>The security incident was linked to a supply-chain attack involving the open-source project LiteLLM. Mercor on Tuesday confirmed to TechCrunch that it was &#8220;one of the thousands of companies&#8221; affected by the compromise of LiteLLM&#8217;s security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup that provides data to major AI firms, including OpenAI and Anthropic, has confirmed that it was hit by a security breach that may have exposed sensitive company and user data. The security incident was linked to a supply-chain attack involving the open-source project LiteLLM. Mercor on Tuesday confirmed to TechCrunch that it was &#8220;one of the thousands of companies&#8221; affected by the compromise of LiteLLM&#8217;s security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}