Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup that works with companies including OpenAI and Anthropic, confirms major data breach |
Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup that works with companies including OpenAI and Anthropic, confirms major data breach
Mercor, a startup that provides training data to major AI companies, confirmed that it was the victim of a security breach that may have exposed sensitive company and user data.
The three-year old startup, which is valued at $10 billion, recruits experts in fields ranging from medicine to law to literature, to help provide data the improves the capabilities of AI modes. Its customers include Anthropic, OpenAI , and Meta. According to unconfirmed reports circulating online, datasets used by some of Mercor’s customers and information about those customers’ secretive AI projects may have been compromised in the breach.
The incident was linked to a supply chain attack involving LiteLLM, a widely used open-source library for connecting applications to AI services.
The company confirmed to Fortune it was “one of thousands of companies” affected by the supply chain attack on LiteLLM, which has been linked to a hacking group called TeamPCP. Mercor spokesperson Heidi Hagberg said that the company had “moved promptly” to contain and remediate the incident and said a third-party forensics investigation was underway.
“The privacy and security of our customers and contractors is foundational........