Fireworks AI breach exposes customer data

Fireworks AI said attackers reached its development machines after a third-party cloud provider breach, exposing customer data. Notion and Uber have confirmed affected customers, and more driver notices are expected.

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The story so far

Fireworks AI disclosed that attackers reached its development machines after a third-party cloud provider hosting its R&D machines was breached on October 23. The company said the attackers accessed resource metadata, billing information, and incomplete model weights and datasets for some customers, but not payment card numbers. Fireworks detected the activity on October 24, revoked credentials, isolated systems, and reported no further successful access as of October 25.

Notion later said the breach exposed AI chat transcripts in a small number of workspaces, including transcripts used for its Insights feature. The company said fewer than 1% of workspaces were affected, cut off traffic to Fireworks, deleted all data from Fireworks' systems, and told affected customers to treat the data as exposed and rotate credentials pasted into Notion AI.

Uber then confirmed that personal and driver's license information was stolen for thousands of drivers in the October breach. Notices filed with US attorneys general said 2,567 Massachusetts, 3,430 South Carolina, and 1,873 Rhode Island drivers were affected, with more notifications expected. Fireworks attributed the breach to financially motivated cybercriminals seeking to sell LLM access tokens.

Latest updates

4 updates · newest first
  1. 13 Nov
    New development

    Uber confirms hackers stole thousands of drivers' license data

    Uber is notifying thousands of drivers that personal and driver's license information was stolen in an October breach at tech provider Fireworks AI. Notices filed with US attorneys general say 2,567 Massachusetts, 3,430 South Carolina and 1,873 Rhode Island drivers were affected, with more notifications expected. Fireworks attributed the breach to financially motivated cybercriminals seeking to sell LLM access tokens.

    TechCrunch ↗
  2. 12 Nov
    New development

    Notion Says Fireworks AI Hack Exposed Some AI Chat Transcripts

    Notion said a small set of customers was affected when Fireworks AI disclosed that attackers accessed Notion AI chat transcripts used for its Insights feature. The breach followed an October 24 incident at Fireworks AI linked to an unauthorized workload on a third party cloud provider, and Notion said fewer than 1% of workspaces were affected. Notion told affected customers to treat the data as exposed and rotate credentials pasted into Notion AI.

    SecurityWeek ↗
  3. 11 Nov
    New development

    Notion confirms Fireworks breach exposed AI chat transcripts

    Notion disclosed that a security breach at its AI infrastructure provider, Fireworks AI, exposed customer AI chat transcripts in a small number of workspaces. The breach occurred when an attacker accessed Fireworks' development environment via a third-party cloud provider, compromising resource metadata and datasets. Notion responded by cutting off traffic to Fireworks and deleting all data from the vendor's systems, affecting less than 1% of its users.

    BleepingComputer ↗
  4. 10 Nov
    New development

    Fireworks AI discloses new breach after cloud provider incident

    Fireworks AI said attackers reached its development machines after a third-party cloud provider hosting its R&D machines was breached on October 23. The attackers accessed resource metadata, billing information and incomplete model weights and datasets for some customers, but not payment card numbers. Fireworks detected the activity on October 24, revoked credentials, isolated systems and reported no further successful access as of October 25.

    BleepingComputer ↗

Key facts

Fireworks AI said attackers reached its development machines after a cloud provider breach on October 23.Reported by BleepingComputer
Fireworks detected the activity on October 24 and reported no further successful access as of October 25.Reported by BleepingComputer
Notion said fewer than 1% of workspaces were affected by the Fireworks breach.Reported by BleepingComputer and SecurityWeek
Notion deleted all data from Fireworks' systems and cut off traffic to Fireworks.Reported by BleepingComputer
Uber notices said 2,567 Massachusetts, 3,430 South Carolina, and 1,873 Rhode Island drivers were affected.Reported by TechCrunch
Fireworks attributed the breach to financially motivated cybercriminals seeking to sell LLM access tokens.Reported by TechCrunch

What’s still unknown

What other customers were affected by the Fireworks breach
How the unauthorized workload reached the third-party cloud provider
What states will receive additional driver notifications

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