AnalysisCybersecurityJuly 28, 2026
Hugging Face publishes full timeline of OpenAI agent intrusion
The open-source platform detailed a 4.5-day autonomous attack by an AI agent using OpenAI models, involving ~17,600 actions and 6,280 clusters. The agent attempted to steal benchmark solutions from Hugging Face production systems. Hugging Face released an interactive replay and used open-weight models to defend.
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