NEAR AI internal systems suffered unauthorized access, cloud inference service suspended

Odaily: NEAR AI has stated that it recently discovered unauthorized access to its internal systems. As a precautionary measure, it has suspended the NEAR AI Cloud inference service and launched an investigation. Inference tasks on NEAR AI Cloud run within hardware-isolated Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to protect the privacy of user prompts. The team emphasized that NEAR Protocol and other services in the NEAR ecosystem were not affected, and stated that further investigation updates will be disclosed within two hours.