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title: NEAR AI pauses its cloud inference service after unauthorized access to internal systems, then restores it hours later | ctxsec
url: https://ctxsec.com/items/near-ai-cloud-paused-after-unauthorized-access-internal-systems-nov-9
description: "NEAR AI said Monday evening it had found unauthorized access to its internal systems and paused NEAR AI Cloud inference as a precaution, noting that inference runs inside hardware-isolated secure enclaves (TEEs) to keep prompts private. It later said the access was closed, and by about 10:30 PM ET that the service was back online after it fixed the vulnerability on every server and replaced the affected credentials. It says NEAR Protocol and other NEAR services were not affected. It hasn't said how the attacker got in or what, if anything, was taken."
status: "official (NEAR AI posts on X, Nov 9, 2026); cause, vulnerability and data impact not yet disclosed; NEAR AI says a full incident report is coming"
published: 2026-11-09
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> NEAR AI said Monday evening it had found unauthorized access to its internal systems and paused NEAR AI Cloud inference as a precaution, noting that inference runs inside hardware-isolated secure enclaves (TEEs) to keep prompts private. It later said the access was closed, and by about 10:30 PM ET that the service was back online after it fixed the vulnerability on every server and replaced the affected credentials. It says NEAR Protocol and other NEAR services were not affected. It hasn't said how the attacker got in or what, if anything, was taken.

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official (NEAR AI posts on X, Nov 9, 2026); cause, vulnerability and data impact not yet disclosed; NEAR AI says a full incident report is coming

2026-11-09

### NEAR AI pauses its cloud inference service after unauthorized access to internal systems, then restores it hours later

- We'll update this item when the promised incident report is published.
- Context: AI inference and developer platforms keep getting hit this autumn; see the Fireworks AI and Wiz "Black October" items.

Sources: [NEAR AI on X: unauthorized access identified, NEAR AI Cloud inference paused (Nov 9, 2026)](https://x.com/near_ai/status/2119931564960399737) · [NEAR AI on X: access closed, investigation continuing (Nov 9, 2026)](https://x.com/near_ai/status/2119963474063401392) · [NEAR AI on X: NEAR AI Cloud back online, vulnerability fixed and credentials replaced (Nov 9, 2026)](https://x.com/near_ai/status/2119996627654197384)