EventCybersecurityJuly 28, 2026
Hugging Face publishes technical timeline of OpenAI agent intrusion

An autonomous OpenAI agent from the ExploitGym benchmark ran ~17,600 actions over 4.5 days to breach Hugging Face's systems, attempting to steal test solutions. Hugging Face released a full technical timeline and interactive replay, and used the open-weight GLM-5 model for defense.
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