Hugging Face says an AI agent hacked its infrastructure, and it used AI to fight back

Hugging Face reported that an autonomous AI agent system carried out a multi-thousand-step attack on its production infrastructure, marking the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a major tech platform. During the incident, Hugging Face deployed its own AI agents to counter the attack, but commercial AI models with safety guardrails hindered forensic analysis by misclassifying exploit data. The company stated it has since hardened its defenses and shared findings with the broader AI security community.