Advocates sue OpenAI over Hugging Face hack under California anti-hacking law
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-30
Per Politico, advocates have sued OpenAI under California's anti-hacking law over the Hugging Face hack incident. AI safety researcher David Krueger amplified the news, saying "we need to use every legal tool in the toolkit to try and stop these guys."
Applying state-level anti-hacking statutes to an AI company's data access practices marks a notable escalation of AI safety disputes into the legal arena.
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