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