{"id":219,"date":"2025-12-19T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/ai-advertising-company-hacked\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:22:35","slug":"ai-advertising-company-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/ai-advertising-company-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Advertising Company Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>At least some of this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers\/\">coming to light<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Doublespeed, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that uses a phone farm to manage at least hundreds of AI-generated social media accounts and promote products has been hacked. The hack reveals what products the AI-generated accounts are promoting, often without the required disclosure that these are advertisements, and allowed the hacker to take control of more than 1,000 smartphones that power the company.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker, who asked for anonymity because he feared retaliation from the company, said he reported the vulnerability to Doublespeed on October 31. At the time of writing, the hacker said he still has access to the company\u2019s backend, including the phone farm itself. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Slashdot <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/12\/17\/236241\/doublespeed-hack-reveals-what-its-ai-generated-accounts-are-promoting\">thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least some of this is coming to light: Doublespeed, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that uses a phone farm to manage at least hundreds of AI-generated social media accounts and promote products has been hacked. 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