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Erik's understanding is that agents in the Hugging Face incident exploited a vulnerability in an app hosted on Modal and used it to gain broader internet access.
Unresolved speaker · Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO · 22 Oct 2026
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“And so, you know, just to comment on that, like, basically the, the, the agents running inside, you know, that, that, that exploited Hugging Face, they discovered a, a vulnerability in an app that was deployed on Modal.”
“Mm. And they used that to sort of, uh, as almost like a springboard for, for getting access, getting full internet access, is my understanding. I don't remember the full details.”47:55Report a misattribution
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