{"id":998550,"date":"2026-03-16T12:19:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998550"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:19:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:49:04","slug":"mckinsey-realises-the-risk-of-rapid-adoption-of-ai-after-hackers-gain-access-to-46-5-million-employee-chat-messages-728000-sensitive-files-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/16\/mckinsey-realises-the-risk-of-rapid-adoption-of-ai-after-hackers-gain-access-to-46-5-million-employee-chat-messages-728000-sensitive-files-and\/","title":{"rendered":"McKinsey realises the risk of rapid adoption of AI after hackers gain access to 46.5 million employee chat messages, 728000 \u2018sensitive files\u2019 and &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McKinsey &amp; Company rushed to patch a serious security flaw in its internal AI platform after a cybersecurity researcher gained access to tens of millions of employee chat messages and hundreds of thousands of sensitive files \u2013 all within two hours. According to a report by The Financial Times (via CodeWall), the target was Lilli, the management consultancy\u2019s in-house AI platform used daily by its 40,000 employees to plan strategy, analyse data, and build project plans and client presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at CodeWall, a security startup that uses AI agents to continuously attack customers&#8217; infrastructure to help them improve their security, say that the agent gained full read and write access to Lilli&#8217;s entire production database in under two hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKinsey &amp; Company rushed to patch a serious security flaw in its internal AI platform after a cybersecurity researcher gained access to tens of millions of employee chat messages and hundreds of thousands of sensitive files \u2013 all within two hours. According to a report by The Financial Times (via CodeWall), the target was Lilli, the management consultancy\u2019s in-house AI platform used daily by its 40,000 employees to plan strategy, analyse data, and build project plans and client presentations. Researchers at CodeWall, a security startup that uses AI agents to continuously attack customers&#8217; infrastructure to help them improve their security, [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998550","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=998550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}