NEAR AI security breach exposed data from about 100 users and 18 legacy agents

NEAR AI has restored its Cloud service after containing a security breach that exposed account details for approximately 100 users and data from 18 legacy AI agents. The NEAR AI security breach began on November 8, 2026, when an attacker exploited a flaw in the open-source SGLang inference engine, according to the company’s incident report. Key takeaways An SGLang flaw enabled code execution on one inference server. The attacker accessed 18 legacy agents outside the confidential computing environment. Two Cloud customers’ exposed API keys have been revoked. NEAR AI found no evidence of access to stored Private Chat conversations or uploaded files.

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