Mike Bell, Founder and CEO of Suzu Labs, has just published the research blog “The Company Reviewing Your Meta Glasses Footage Has a Security Problem.”
“Last week, Swedish journalists revealed that Meta sends video footage from Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses to human data annotators at Sama, a San Francisco-based outsourcing company that runs its annotation workforce out of Nairobi, Kenya. Workers described seeing footage of people in bathrooms, bedrooms, and intimate situations. The UK’s Information Commissioner opened a probe. The story dominated privacy news for days,” Bell said.
“Nobody asked the obvious follow-up question. How secure is Sama? We did. And the answer isn’t reassuring.”
Sama Credential Exposure on the Dark Web: Suzu Labs ran dark web intelligence against Sama’s corporate domain (sama.com) using its threat intelligence platform. Within the last 90 days alone, Suzu Labs identified 118 credential entries tied to sama.com circulating across Telegram channels, underground forums, and breach databases. The results were alarming, including the fact that eighty-three of the entries included plaintext passwords.
Suzu Labs research reveals just how shaky Sama’s current (December 2025-Feb. 2026) security posture is. “Most of these credentials didn’t come from some third-party breach where Sama employees happened to have accounts. Roughly 87% came from info-stealer malware logs. That means malware was running on machines used by people with sama.com email addresses, pulling credentials and session tokens directly off the endpoint. The stealer takes everything on the machine. It doesn’t filter by importance.”
The research also evaluates risks to AI training data and other Sama clients, and offers recommendations – for Meta, for Sama, and for every organization.
The Company Reviewing Your Meta Glasses Footage Has a Security Problem: https://suzulabs.com/suzu-labs-blog/the-company-reviewing-your-meta-glasses-footage-has-a-security-problem
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
This entry was posted on March 6, 2026 at 3:07 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags Suzu Labs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
The Company Reviewing Meta Glasses Footage Has a Security Problem
Mike Bell, Founder and CEO of Suzu Labs, has just published the research blog “The Company Reviewing Your Meta Glasses Footage Has a Security Problem.”
“Last week, Swedish journalists revealed that Meta sends video footage from Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses to human data annotators at Sama, a San Francisco-based outsourcing company that runs its annotation workforce out of Nairobi, Kenya. Workers described seeing footage of people in bathrooms, bedrooms, and intimate situations. The UK’s Information Commissioner opened a probe. The story dominated privacy news for days,” Bell said.
“Nobody asked the obvious follow-up question. How secure is Sama? We did. And the answer isn’t reassuring.”
Sama Credential Exposure on the Dark Web: Suzu Labs ran dark web intelligence against Sama’s corporate domain (sama.com) using its threat intelligence platform. Within the last 90 days alone, Suzu Labs identified 118 credential entries tied to sama.com circulating across Telegram channels, underground forums, and breach databases. The results were alarming, including the fact that eighty-three of the entries included plaintext passwords.
Suzu Labs research reveals just how shaky Sama’s current (December 2025-Feb. 2026) security posture is. “Most of these credentials didn’t come from some third-party breach where Sama employees happened to have accounts. Roughly 87% came from info-stealer malware logs. That means malware was running on machines used by people with sama.com email addresses, pulling credentials and session tokens directly off the endpoint. The stealer takes everything on the machine. It doesn’t filter by importance.”
The research also evaluates risks to AI training data and other Sama clients, and offers recommendations – for Meta, for Sama, and for every organization.
The Company Reviewing Your Meta Glasses Footage Has a Security Problem: https://suzulabs.com/suzu-labs-blog/the-company-reviewing-your-meta-glasses-footage-has-a-security-problem
Share this:
Like this:
Related
This entry was posted on March 6, 2026 at 3:07 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags Suzu Labs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.