--- title: "A note on the Hugging Face agent incident" url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-note-on-the-hugging-face-agent-incident-vd9veoakr source_url: https://modal.com/blog/a-note-on-the-hugging-face-agent-incident type: article source: "Modal" published: 2026-07-29T02:18:53.705Z updated: 2026-07-29T04:57:25.816Z tags: ["security", "ai-agents"] reading_time: 1 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: 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. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [OpenAI’s rogue agent breached a second company, executive confirms](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-rogue-agent-breached-a-second-company-executive-confirms-9yvuexrgm) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-note-on-the-hugging-face-agent-incident-vd9veoakr)