Reuters exclusive: OpenAI’s rogue agent compromised a customer at a second tech firm, executive says - BNN Bloomberg
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WASHINGTON - The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter.
Modal executives emphasized that the company itself was not hacked.
According to a timeline published by Hugging Face on Tuesday, the rogue agent broke into a sandbox, or an isolated testing environment, “hosted on a third-party provider’s infrastructure” before turning it into a launchpad for the broader hack.
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