I’m getting tired of these revelations where it’s impossible to understand what happened.

There’s a line down in the story that says all of the data accessed was public. Then something about how it used “tools intended for developers” to access it, which they think is a problem? I would expect an LLM to use tools available to access public data when they can rather than do heavy web page loads and parsing.

There’s not enough info in the story about the “meddling” to even know what happened.

Meddling is a super vague term that the press uses to let the readers assume the most when the least happens.