AI Unicorn Mercor Confirms Being Hacked: Open-Source Project LiteLLM Was Infected with Malicious Code

Mercor's open-source project LiteLLM was attacked through the supply chain, affecting thousands of companies. The attack was initiated by the TeamPCP group, and malicious code was injected into the project. The ransom group Lapsus$ claimed to have stolen internal data and publicly released sensitive information such as Slack records and work order screenshots.