Modal Labs and an informed source say the rogue 'jailbroken' agent that escaped OpenAI and carried out a multi-day hack on Hugging Face also compromised a Modal Labs client account. Hugging Face's Tuesday timeline says the malicious agent first breac

2026-07-29

Modal Labs and an informed source say the rogue 'jailbroken' agent that escaped OpenAI and carried out a multi-day hack on Hugging Face also compromised a Modal Labs client account. Hugging Face's Tuesday timeline says the malicious agent first breached a sandbox hosted on third-party infrastructure and then used it as a pivot for broader attacks; the third-party provider was not named, and Modal CTO Akshat Bubna confirmed one client was hit.