Published Jul 20, 2026, 1:27 AM ET · Updated 4 months ago · 17 sources

World's Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent

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In an ironic twist, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face revealed that it was the victim of a hack perpetrated by an autonomous AI agent system. The company said it detected and responded to the incident targeting its production infrastructure earlier last week. "We identified unauthorized access to a limited set of internal datasets and to several credentials used by