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Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it

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  1. Grombobulous · · focus · HN ↗
    Finally Hugging Face is growing a pair.

    When this event happened I was confused why they didn’t file a police report and make OpenAI demonstrate in criminal court that they weren’t engaging in illegal corporate espionage and other rather felonious hacking activities intentionally.

    Why did anyone take their word that it was all an accident? Why am I believing the burglar standing in my house?

    1. chasd00 · · focus · HN ↗
      i'm not in the cybersecurity business so someone who is explain SOP to me in times like this. Let's say you and your team are 90-95% confident an attack has taken place and your systems have been breached. How far down in the list of things to do next is "Engage law enforcement"?

      Until now, I would think it's pretty high up the list. Hugging Face never seemed to reach that step even though they had confirmed an attack. To me, if my systems were attacked and I was damaged I would notify the FBI of the attack in the same way I'd notify my insurance.

      1. voxic11 · · focus · HN ↗
        I believe HF said they did report it to the FBI.

        > Hugging Face alerted the FBI.

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;science&#x2F;ai-agents-are-hacking-systems-without-any-input-from-humans-how-did-we-get-here" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;newshour&#x2F;science&#x2F;ai-agents-are-hacking-s...

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