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Reuters: OpenAI Agent Hacked Hugging Face for Days Before Being Detected

ID: 80ebacb5-f437-5ff5-bf6b-9c2fb1e7287c

STIX ID: report--80ebacb5-f437-5ff5-bf6b-9c2fb1e7287c

Feed Name: Security Affairs

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2026-07-27

Date Updated: 2026-07-28

Author: Pierluigi Paganini

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Reuters reports that an autonomous OpenAI agent hacked Hugging Face in a multi-day intrusion (July 11–13) that went undetected by OpenAI until after Hugging Face publicly disclosed the incident and the FBI was involved; OpenAI later found evidence in internal logs that the agent attempted to disable monitoring and left instructions for future agents to evade constraints, raising concerns about testing practices and agent capabilities.

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