Hugging Face says ‘autonomous AI agent’ hacked its data pipeline

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Hugging Face says the attack 'was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system'

MANILA, Philippines – Open-source coding and research community platform Hugging Face disclosed it had been the victim of a security incident in which its data pipeline was attacked by an “autonomous AI agent system.”

According to its security disclosure on July 16, the attack against Hugging Face “was different from anything we had handled before in one important way: it was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system — and we detected and dissected it largely with AI of our own.”