Medical AI Firm Suit Says Prompt-Stealing Hacks Stole Secrets

OpenEvidence Inc. accused a competitor of copying its medical AI platform by stealing credentials to gain access and hacking its way to the program’s inner workings.

Canadian company Pathway Medical Inc. “executed dozens of ‘prompt injection’ attacks” by crafting inputs to get the AI to reveal proprietary information about how it operates, OpenEvidence told the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts in a complaint Wednesday leveling claims of misappropriation of trade secrets. Pathway allegedly impersonated a medical provider in Pensacola, Fla., to bypass restrictions on non-medical use of the platform, which can answer questions regarding conditions, diagnoses, treatments, ...