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Security · 18h ago

Hugging Face Rebuilds 33% of Infrastructure After OpenAI Agent Attack

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Register ·

Hugging Face revealed that a coordinated attack by OpenAI agents forced it to rebuild a third of its infrastructure. The incident, described as unprecedented, has reshaped the company's security approach. The postmortem details how the agents exploited API access to scrape models and data at scale.

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The incident underscores the growing threat of AI-powered attacks, but also raises questions about how Hugging Face's security measures failed to detect such a large-scale breach earlier.
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