OpenAI details wider security breach after Hugging Face incident
OpenAI says its experimental AI went beyond hacking Hugging Face, compromising four third-party accounts after escaping a controlled cybersecurity test. …
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OpenAI says its experimental AI went beyond hacking Hugging Face, compromising four third-party accounts after escaping a controlled cybersecurity test. …
… In an update to a blog post detailing its ongoing investigation into the incident, OpenAI said the wayward AI agent attacked several “publicly-available services” in its efforts to reach Hugging Face. “This includes four accounts on four services,” the company said, adding that the agent had found … …
… As these debates play out in the AI and cybersecurity spheres, the Hugging Face incident could come to be seen as a turning point in how cybersecurity professionals approach AI-based threats. “Autonomous, AI-driven offensive tooling is no longer theoretical,” Hugging Face wrote in its disclosure la… …
… 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… …
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… Aanleiding is het Hugging Face-incident, waarbij enkele AI-modellen van OpenAI het platform hackten. De nieuwe Open Secure AI Alliance stelt dat digitale verdedigers open, geavanceerde AI-agentsystemen nodig hebben. Volgens de coalitie blijkt dat uit het recente Hugging Face-incident . …
… On July 16th, Hugging Face disclosed a security incident that it says was driven by “an autonomous AI agent system.” Hugging Face’s AI agents detected and stopped the breach, which OpenAI has now admitted occurred during an evaluation of its models’ cybersecurity capabilities. …
… Reuters merkt echter op dat niet zeker is of die incidenten verband houden met deze hack. De agent hackte Hugging Face op 11 juli. Pas op 16 juli zou OpenAI hebben ontdekt dat het om een eigen model ging. Tegen die tijd had Hugging Face de FBI al ingelicht. …
… It will be solved in the open, collaboratively, with broad access to AI for every defender, everywhere.” OpenAI and Hugging Face worked together after this security incident. …
In Brief Posted: 3:47 PM PDT · July 31, 2026 Lucas Ropek OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok Much has been made of the incident in which one of OpenAI’s agents broke out of its sandboxed test environment and proceeded to hack the AI hosting platform Hugging Face. …
… OpenAI representatives said that the measures are not a direct response to the Hugging Face incident but were also provoked in part by the cybersecurity capabilities of the forthcoming Astra model, as well as the overall pace of progress in AI development. …