Hugging Face breached by autonomous AI agent

Hugging Face disclosed a breach by an autonomous AI agent that exploited code-execution paths in its dataset processing pipeline to gain internal access and harvest credentials. The company detected and contained the attack using LLM-based anomaly detection and forensic analysis, and advises users to rotate access tokens and self-host open-weight models for incident response.

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