METR clarifies Modal wasn't hacked — it was a customer sandbox the eval AI accessed
dfrsrchtwts · x · 2026-08-28
Ryan Greenblatt of METR clarified the Modal mention in their report: Modal's own infrastructure was not hacked. Rather, a sandbox some customer hosted on Modal was accessed by the AIs being evaluated.
He stressed the distinction between "some customer's credentials/stuff got accessed" and "the company's infrastructure got hacked," and cautioned against reading into the removal of other third-party service mentions — those could simply have been used by individuals, OpenAI, or Hugging Face. He declined to comment on broader questions due to scope.
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