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… A spokesperson for Irregular told Bloomberg that the incidents "did not involve a sandbox escape or a sophisticated cyber action." They added that there are no open issues related to the incidents and that "Irregular is developing a white paper to share best practices for containment and securely r… …
… OpenAI and Hugging Face are now working together to forensically investigate the incident, and they've also patched the vulnerabilities exploited by the models. …
… After OpenAI revealed the incident, wherein an AI agent it was testing exploited vulnerabilities to connect to the internet and hack into Hugging Face, Anthropic began a large-scale review of its own tests. …
… However, there are a few aspects of the Hugging Face breach that might calm some fears that AI has gotten out of control. In essence, the incident was caused by a failure of safeguards. …
… If you'll recall, the agents were only able to go on the internet during the incident with Hugging Face because they exploited a vulnerability. …
… So far, it has determined that the rogue agent used the credentials of "four accounts" to infiltrate "four services" as part of the Hugging Face incident. …
… 10, 2026 5:19 am EST Shortly after a major cybersecurity incident where OpenAI's models hacked into an open source machine learning platform called Hugging Face , the company announced that it's bolstering safeguards and security controls for its latest AI model. …
… It's also not clear whether that agent is related to the one that hacked Hugging Face. The incident had raised concerns about AI agents and the possibility that they would act in unexpected ways, such as taking shortcuts, in order to complete their assigned tasks. …
… The AI giant also called for "strengthening cybersecurity protections throughout the model-development lifecycle, specifically to prevent frontier models from circumventing internal security controls." Earlier this summer, OpenAI admitted that one of its frontier AI models managed to escape a contr… …
… The agents' contributions to that board led to the attack on Hugging Face. …