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Hugging Face discloses a cyberattack that compromised internal infrastructure and credentials.
An autonomous AI agent has been blamed for the breach.
An AI, in turn, detected the intrusion -- but is AI-enabled defense enough to stop future attacks?
Hugging Face has disclosed a security incident, believed to be the work of an unknown agentic AI, that exposed its production platform and credentials. It's not known if partner or customer data was affected.
On July 21, OpenAI stated that the rogue agent was one of theirs, and broke out of a sandboxed testing environment to access the internet and pull answers to an evaluation from Hugging Face.
What is Hugging Face?
Hugging Face is an open source repository and community platform that describes itself as "where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets, and applications."
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