Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law
30-07-2026 08:30 via theregister.com

Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law

The OpenAI rogue agent behind the Hugging Face hack accessed four accounts on four services, according to updated company disclosures about the intrusion. One of those four accounts belonged to a Modal customer that had published an unauthenticated endpoint for running arbitrary code in a sandbox on the AI infrastructure provider, Hugging Face noted in its technical timeline and Modal later confirmed. “We’re aware a Modal customer published an unauthenticated endpoint that allowed an
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