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NEAR AI, a privacy-focused AI company founded by NEAR blockchain co-founder and pioneering AI researcher Illia Polosukhin, said a hacker retrieved chat histories, settings and logs from 18 AI agents, according to its incident report Monday. Two customers’ API keys, credentials for accessing cloud services, were exposed and revoked.
A flaw in SGLang, software that runs AI models, let the intruder execute code on a server. NEAR AI said it fixed the flaw. The affected agents used an older deployment without confidential-computing protection.
The DeAI angle: Agent logs can contain credentials valuable to hackers. For decentralized AI projects, the breach illustrates why protecting agents’ operating records matters alongside safeguarding users’ personal data.
HOW AI WAS USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF THIS PIECE: The first draft was generated on ChatGPT using a custom skill designed to write stories based on reports. I then used the Distro Publisher MCP connector to file the draft directly to DeAI News on the DistroVerse web app. I then edited the piece using the built-in DistroVerse story editor.