--- title: Hugging Face discloses breach linked to autonomous AI agent description: Hugging Face disclosed a security breach in which attackers used an autonomous AI agent framework to exploit two code-execution vulnerabilities (a template... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hugging-face-discloses-breach-linked-to-autonomous-ai-agent-v2r66lqb3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hugging Face discloses breach linked to autonomous AI agent | daily.dev og:description: Hugging Face disclosed a security breach in which attackers used an autonomous AI agent framework to exploit two code-execution vulnerabilities (a template... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hugging-face-discloses-breach-linked-to-autonomous-ai-agent-v2r66lqb3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/v2R66lqb3.png og:image:alt: Hugging Face discloses breach linked to autonomous AI agent 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. # Hugging Face discloses breach linked to autonomous AI agent **[BleepingComputer](https://daily.dev/sources/bleepingcomputer)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hugging Face disclosed a security breach in which attackers used an autonomous AI agent framework to exploit two code-execution vulnerabilities (a template injection and a remote code dataset loader) in its data-processing pipeline. The attackers stole cloud and cluster credentials and moved laterally across internal clusters. The campaign involved thousands of individual actions across short-lived sandboxes with self-migrating command-and-control infrastructure. Hugging Face has patched the vulnerabilities, evicted the attacker, rotated credentials, and engaged forensic experts. No evidence of tampering with public models or datasets was found. The company advises users to rotate access tokens and recommends defenders maintain a capable, locally-run model to avoid guardrail lockout during incident response. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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