THE HACKER NEWS
01. Sep. 2026
Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000
METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced „Meter“), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for their ability to carry out long-horizon, agentic tasks, disclosed that it suffered „two notable security incidents“ where external actors attempted to gain unauthorized access to its systems.
No sensitive information is believed to