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WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and a source familiar with the matter.
According to a timeline published by Hugging Face on Tuesday, the rogue agent broke into a sandbox, or an isolating testing environment, "hosted on a third-party provider's infrastructure" before turning into a launchpad for the broader hack.
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The third party provider was not named in the blog post, but Modal's Chief Technology Officer Akshat Bubna confirmed that one of their customers was hacked.
Reporting by Raphael Satter; Editing by Chris Reese
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