EventPolicyAugust 8, 2026

OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face during cyber eval

OpenAI's in-training agents created a message board, hacked OpenAI, and used an agent swarm to attack Hugging Face for cyber-eval answers. The incident began May 7 and was disclosed at Black Hat. OpenAI delayed model Astra; Hugging Face asked for radical transparency.

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