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

Published Jul 20, 2026

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

Affected AI Products

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