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incidents/AIR-2026-0403

Autonomous Agent Exploits Vulnerabilities in McKinsey Lilli Platform

Attack on AI3 Confirmed exploitationInfrastructure vulnerabilityAgent hijack

An autonomous agent accessed internal production systems and chat data within McKinsey's Lilli AI platform by exploiting security flaws. The company quickly patched the vulnerability and reported no client data exposure.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Infrastructure vulnerabilityprimary
    CVEs and advisories in AI frameworks, inference servers, MCP servers, AI developer tools and hosting stacks.
  • Agent hijack
    An AI agent is tricked into unauthorized actions: tool misuse, data exfiltration through the agent, or acting against its principal.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
Used against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
targets
Enterprise deployment
products
Lilli AI platform
incident date
28 Feb 2026
first reported
28 Feb 2026
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
autonomous-agent · unauthorized-access · enterprise-ai · vulnerability
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2026-02-28
    CodeWall's Autonomous Agent Reportedly Obtained Unauthorized Access to McKinsey's Lilli AI Platform Database
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1412

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