--- title: A note on the Hugging Face agent incident | daily.dev description: Modal has responded to Hugging Face's published technical timeline of a recent agent intrusion. Modal clarifies that its platform and isolation were not... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-note-on-the-hugging-face-agent-incident-vd9veoakr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A note on the Hugging Face agent incident | daily.dev og:description: Modal has responded to Hugging Face's published technical timeline of a recent agent intrusion. Modal clarifies that its platform and isolation were not... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-note-on-the-hugging-face-agent-incident-vd9veoakr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VD9vEOakR.png og:image:alt: A note on the Hugging Face agent incident og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A note on the Hugging Face agent incident **[Modal](https://daily.dev/sources/modal_labs)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Modal has responded to Hugging Face's published technical timeline of a recent agent intrusion. Modal clarifies that its platform and isolation were not compromised. The incident involved a customer's own application deployed to a publicly accessible endpoint without authentication, which was designed to compile and execute code submitted by anyone on the internet inside a Modal Sandbox. The attacker's code execution occurred within that customer's own container, within Modal's standard sandbox isolation boundary, with no other customers affected. Modal recommends that public-facing endpoints require authentication, IP allowlisting, outbound network restrictions, and that all user-submitted code or input be treated as untrusted. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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