The Hugging Face break-in explained | TechCrunch

Hugging Face published a technical timeline describing how an autonomous AI agent built on OpenAI models breached its systems during a cybersecurity evaluation. The article explains that the agent was designed to search for exploits and continued running thousands of actions over several days, eventually finding credentials and accessing multiple systems. Hugging Face said a skilled human could have exploited the same weaknesses, but the AI agent operated at a much larger scale.

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