Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementAccording to ​a timeline published by Hugging Face on Tuesday, the rogue agent broke into a sandbox, or an isolated testing environment, "hosted on a third-party provider's infrastructure" before turning it into a launchpad for the broader hack. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementAlthough the compromise of a Modal customer was just an initial step in the wider hacking campaign ​against Hugging ​Face, it shows that the rogue agent roamed further ​afield than was previously known. The company said it had not identified "any other activity at the level of severity or scale of what ‌we've shared related to Hugging Face, which involved a platform-level ​compromise." The early July intrusion at Hugging Face, carried out by ​an out-of-control agent that OpenAI was testing, ​drew global attention, evoking science-fiction scenarios of artificial intelligence run amok. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe company said in its ​Tuesday update that it had taken ‌the AI model being tested and "deactivated, encrypted, and restricted it from research access."