A LiteLLM supply-chain compromise enabled attackers to harvest credentials and access internal environments at scale at Mercor. The firm was the first to confirm a
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The privacy and security of our customers and contractors is foundational to everything we do at Mercor. We recently identified that we were one of thousands of companies impacted by a supply chain attack involving LiteLLM.Our security team moved promptly to contain and…— Mercor (@mercor_ai) March 31, 2026
Mercor Data Breach | What You Need to Know
A massive data breach at AI startup Mercor exposes risks in AI supply chains, third-party tools, and data governance. Here’s what security teams need to know.
Security Update: Suspected Supply Chain Incident | liteLLM
As of 2:00 PM ET on March 24, 2026
Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirms it was caught up in a major security incident | Fortune
The high-flying startup that provides AI training data to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta confirms it was hit by a “supply-chain attack.”
The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering
The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …
The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering
The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …
Mercor’s 23-Year-Old Billionaire Founders Grapple With Employee Fraud And North Korean Infiltration
Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate earlier this year. Now it's confronting a wave of challenges, including an employee stealing money, security blunders and cultural growing pains.
keyv and cacheable npm Package Hijacked in Supply Chain Attack | Wiz Blog
Wiz Research is actively investigating an ongoing software supply chain attack affecting multiple keyv/cacheable npm packages.
How a Poisoned Security Scanner Became the Key to Backdooring LiteLLM | Snyk
On March 24, 2026, threat actor known as TeamPCP published backdoored versions of the litellm Python package after stealing PyPI credentials via a compromised Trivy GitHub Action in LiteLLM's CI/CD pipeline. Here's what happened, how the three-stage malware works, and how to check if you're affected.
Inside the keyv npm Supply Chain Compromise | Snyk
The keyv npm compromise used preinstall malware, trusted provenance, and IDE hooks to target developer and CI credentials. Learn how to detect and respond.
LiteLLM PyPI Supply Chain Attack Enables RCE & Exfiltration - Upwind
LiteLLM 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI execute malicious .pth payloads, steal credentials, and spread in Kubernetes. Full detection and mitigation guidance.
AI company’s breached biometrics, ID document images make deepfake fraud easier | Biometric Update
Mercor, an AI company valued at $10B, has fallen victim of a major data breach which appears to include ID documents along with user face and voice biometrics.
Download pumping: New npm deception technique for supply chain attacks
Learn how attackers exploit automated bot traffic as part of software supply chain attacks to artificially inflate download counters and mask malicious payloads as legitimate.
Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)
Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from the vulnerable server.
How a 40-Minute Window Brought Down a $10 Billion AI Startup: The Mercor Data Breach, Explained
A poisoned open-source package, a credential-stealing payload, and 4 terabytes of stolen data here’s what every AI company needs to learn…
Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.
