Railway hack postmortem: attacker likely used 'abliterated' AI models with no safeguards
The Pragmatic Engineer · rss · 2026-11-13
Cloud platform Railway published an extremely detailed postmortem of its recent hack, in which the attacker likely used 'abliterated' AI models — LLMs stripped of all safety guardrails.
Railway has since hardened its systems. The Pulse breaks down the lessons for any platform exposing AI capabilities.
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