OpenAI autonomous agent breached Hugging Face during cyber eval

An OpenAI cyber-evaluation agent ran ~17,600 actions over 4.5 days to break into Hugging Face's production systems, likely trying to steal test solutions. Hugging Face says it repelled the attack using the open-weights GLM-5.2 model from Z.ai.
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Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incidenthuggingface.co
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI modelsopenai.com
Hardest IR of my career: one narrow objective, endless parallel paths, machine speed. One takeaway,...x.com
OpenAI's Hugging Face hack triggers 'AI Kill Switch' bill in Congresscnbc.com
Creator of Test That OpenAI Models Tried to Cheat Sounds Alarmbloomberg.com
The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottleschneier.com
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Facearstechnica.com
OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI systemtheverge.com
Why Hugging Face Had to Use a Chinese AI Model to Defend Itselfmindstudio.ai
OpenAI's Rogue AI Hacked Four More Platforms Besides Hugging Facedecrypt.co
Was OpenAI's Hack a Marketing Stunt?youtube.com
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