September 3, 2026

4TB of Data Leaked Overnight: How Did an AI Recruitment Startup Valued at 10 Billion Get Compromised by a Compromised Supply Chain?

A company you’ve probably never heard of—but one that may have “indirectly fueled” the AI products you use every day—became the latest target for hackers to boast about their exploits in March 2026. Its name is Mercor—an AI recruitment and data annotation startup valued at $10 billion, with a client list that includes OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Anthropic. What it lost was approximately 4 TB...
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