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> Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000

[SOURCE] The Hacker News [DATE: 01/09/2026 09:05] [LANGUAGE: EN]
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
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