Mercor Among Many Companies Hit by LiteLLM Breach, Probe Underway

Mercor, a $10 billion AI recruiting startup, has confirmed it was affected by the recent LiteLLM supply chain breach. The incident, which occurred on March 24, exposed malicious versions of the LiteLLM Python package on PyPI. The Lapsus$ extortion group claimed to have stolen over 4TB of Mercor's internal data, which is now being auctioned.