AI agent bug exposed one customer's data to another during security test

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A software engineer discovered a critical data leakage bug during a red-team security test of a MEAN-stack AI agent. The agent retrieved and used a real instruction belonging to one customer to answer another customer's question. The flaw stemmed from a generic memory system that stored varied data types without proper ownership or lifecycle controls. The developers fixed the issue by implementing strict data contracts with tenant isolation and expiration rules before semantic search.

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