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Hugging Face has disclosed a data breach affecting its Spaces platform, a place where developers can create, share, and host different Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, and resources. 

In an announcement posted on the community’s website, the company said it detected unauthorized access to its Spaces platform, “specifically related to Spaces secrets”.

Late Friday afternoon, a time window companies usually reserve for unflattering disclosures, AI startup Hugging Face said that its security team earlier this week detected “unauthorized access” to Spaces, Hugging Face’s platform for creating, sharing and hosting AI models and resources.

In a blog post, Hugging Face said that the intrusion related to Spaces secrets, or the private pieces of information that act as keys to unlock protected resources like accounts, tools and dev environments, and that it has “suspicions” some secrets could’ve been accessed by a third party without authorization.

As a precaution, Hugging Face has revoked a number of tokens in those secrets. (Tokens are used to verify identities.) Hugging Face says that users whose tokens have been…