Erik distinguishes the Hugging Face incident from a breach of Modal itself: an application hosted on Modal was hacked.

“To be clear, this is an app running a Modal that was hacked. Like, it was not Modal that was hacked. Yeah. So it's like AWS, a lot of people run stuff on AWS. Occasionally those app get hacked.”

“Does that mean AWS got hacked? Like, no. [chuckles] Of course not, right? And, and so there's a lot of people running apps on Modal and, you know, one of those apps got hacked, and I, I'd say...”