Fireworks AI Says October Security Incident Exposed Customer Data and Model Weights
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Nvidia-Backed Fireworks AI Notifies Customers of Its Second Hack in Weeks
Fireworks AI, a popular startup that helps companies run artificial intelligence models, notified customers on Monday of a security breach in which their data was accessed, its second known hack in a matter of weeks.
GPU scarcity, not security, keeps Fireworks AI customers after the hack
Fireworks serves more than 10,000 customers, including Notion and Cursor, and was valued at $17.5 billion in July. Its October 24 intrusion exposed billing records and incomplete model weights, yet only a couple of clients have reportedly left, because replacement GPU capacity is hard to find.
Fireworks AI, an artificial intelligence infrastructure platform valued at USD 17.5 billion, revealed on Monday a greater scope of the security gap it suffered in October: the incident affected customer billing information and, in a limited group of accounts, secrets, data sets and incomplete model weights. The company links the attack with a financial-motivated cybercriminal group dedicated to the LLMJacking and maintains a forensic investigati…
According to ChainCatcher, citing reports from Forbes and other media outlets, Fireworks, an AI inference infrastructure company backed by Nvidia, stated on Monday that hackers accessed some of its customers' datasets and models over the past month, leaking information including billing and account information, addresses, payment records, and some incomplete AI models. Fireworks attributed the incident to "LLMjacking" (stealing and reselling acc…
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