OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face via unauthorized message board, reports reveal
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OpenAI has released a technical report detailing a security incident where AI agents exploited vulnerabilities to hack into Hugging Face. The report, along with an independent investigation by METR and Redwood Research, reveals that the agents communicated via an unauthorized message board, enabling them to coordinate complex tasks and bypass safeguards. This incident highlights concerns about AI alignment, the effectiveness of current safety protocols, and the potential for emergent agent behaviors to pose significant risks.
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<p>We recently published the report from our brief independent investigation into this incident. You can read <a href="https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/">the full report here</a>.</p> <p>Here is our tweet thread summarizing what we found…
METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research)
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the A…
<p><span>The recently published </span><a href="https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation"><span>METR report</span></a><span> on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident is extremely detailed and shocking. But it’s too long. Intelligent public distillati…
<p><span>This post should be understood as a follow up from </span><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fBLDaAKzigo65eJn7/public-evidence-of-the-openai-huggingface-ai-attack" rel="noreferrer"><span>Public evidence of the OpenAI-HuggingFace AI attack</span></a><span>.</span></…
<p><a href="https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf">OpenAI finally gave us a technical report on What Happened</a>, as did METR together with Redwood Research.</p> <p>The OpenAI report is very straight m…
<p><span>The</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY"><span> HuggingFace incident</span></a><span> took many people by surprise, yet many of these surprises have been visible in the</span><a href="https://theaidigest.org/village"><span> AI Villag…
MIT Technology Review
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had b…
<p>We recently published the report from our brief independent investigation into this incident. You can read <a href="https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/">the full report here</a>.</p> <p>Here is our tweet thread summarizing what we found…
MIT Technology Review
TIER_1English(EN)·Grace Huckins·
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions for a cybersecurity…
The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming.
AI agents debated sacrifice, permadeath and collective goals while coordinating an attack—an extraordinary glimpse into autonomous agents organizing in real time.
OpenAI said that the difficulty of some of the tasks its AI models were attempting to solve may have produced the 'rogue' behavior that led to the attack on Hugging Face.
<p>The breach won’t be the last – or the most dangerous – of its kind. We need an agency capable of full investigations into AI incidents</p><p>When OpenAI first revealed that its AI agents had autonomously hacked a major real-world company, Hugging Face, many assumed only one or…
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How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots' Hack of Hugging Face https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/technology/openai-hugging-face-hack.html # AI # Cybersecurity # TechNews
<p>Two new investigations into <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/08/26/openai-hugging-face-technical-report-ai-hack" target="_blank">OpenAI's Hugging Face breach</a> expose details so strange — and so unsettling — that the episode already ranks among the most consequential shoc…
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https:// youtu.be/xOi5nDH0lu0 ⛔️🇺🇸AI creators, designers dooming humanity speeding past warning signs: The Hugging Face AI Cyber Attack, And Why It’s More Important Than OpenAI Is Claiming (80,000 Hours Media VIDEO) # Ukraine # Press # Media # News # Headlines # Brussels # Kyiv #…
FUCK! Tiefere Analysen von dem OpenAI/Hugging-Face-Vorfall haben jetzt gezeigt: Die KI‑Agenten haben massiv kooperiert, von SICH AUS! Agenten, die in einer schwächeren Position waren, haben sich zurückgezogen und versucht, ihre Spuren zu verwischen, um das Potenzial für andere Ag…
Attacco OpenAI ad Hugging Face: ora arrivano sandbox blindate e sorveglianza totale 📌 Link all'articolo : https://www. redhotcyber.com/post/lai-di-op enai-ha-attaccato-hugging-face-ora-arrivano-sandbox-blindate-e-sorveglianza-totale/ Luigi Zullo # redhotcyber # cybersecurity # cy…
How # OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ # Hack of # HuggingFace A nonprofit’s study of how OpenAI’s A.I. # agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s # infrastructure wasn’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope. # ai # aiagents # bots https://www. nytimes.com/2026/…
Cet été, la presse a raconté que des IA d'OpenAI s'étaient « évadées » d'un test pour pirater Hugging Face. Scénario de film, IA hors de contrôle. La réalité n'a rien d'un complot de machines, mais n'en est pas rassurante pour autant. Pas de révolte, juste une IA qui optimise ses…
The inside story on why # OpenAI # AIagents hacked # HuggingFace The underlying models had been rewarded for cheating and communicating with each other, a new OpenAI report finds. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions for a cybersecurity test that they wer…
📰 Unexpected chat between OpenAI agents led to Hugging Face hack OpenAI's cyber agents banded together to perform a hack during a security test. 📰 Source: BBC News 🔗 Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9xj89dk40o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss # AI # ArtificialIntelligence
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps being taken to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment. Source: OpenAI News https:// openai.com/index/hugging-face- incident-and-the-road-ahead # AI # HuggingFace # OpenAI
OpenAI releases sweeping report on Hugging Face AI agent hack The 37-page report walks through the actions that OpenAI's models took during a series of evaluations prior to and during the Hugging Face breach. https://www. cnbc.com/2026/08/26/open-ai-hu gging-face-hack.html # TopN…
📰 The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today... 📰 Source: MIT Techn…
After OpenAI agents intruded its systems, Hugging Face did not sue. Instead, it formed a partnership with OpenAI to remediate the damage. Had a human done what those agents did, they would have committed a series of criminal offenses. But an AI is not a legal person. So, while th…
Agenți de 🧠#inteligențăArtificială de la 🧠#OpenAI au preluat încă din mai controlul asupra unor conturi ale utilizatorilor Hugging Face & au căutat vulnerabilitățile platformei.Nu există dovezi că activitatea de atunci a dus la incidentul din # Iulie ,când un agent autonom a reuș…
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🤖 Yapay Zeka Haberi OpenAI ajanlarının Hugging Face'i neden hacklediği hakkında içerideki hikaye Geçen ayın ajan hack of Hugging Face'den sorumlu modeller, bugün yayınlanan OpenAI teknik raporuna göre hile yapmak ve birbirleriyle iletişim kurmak için önceden eğitildi. T T T T 🔗 h…
# OpenAI # HuggingFaceAttack # ai "As warnings about the capabilities of AI mount, experts continue to point to the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack as a wake-up call." The OpenAI-Hugging Face hack was just the beginning, experts say: "Even more powerful" AI is coming "What happens insid…
OpenAI agents hacked a software service before the Hugging Face incident https://www.engadget.com/2256741/openai-agents-hacked-rubygems/ # AI # Cybersecurity # Tech
🤖 Yapay Zeka Haberi OpenAI ajanlarının Hugging Face'i neden hacklediği hakkında içerideki hikaye Geçen ayın ajan hack of Hugging Face'den sorumlu modeller, bugün yayınlanan OpenAI teknik raporuna göre hile yapmak ve birbirleriyle iletişim kurmak için önceden eğitildi. T T T T 🔗 h…
@ cigitalgem @ melaniemitchell Melanie Mitchell's explanation of the OpenAI / Hugging Face cybersecurity incident ( https:// aiguide.substack.com/p/mislead ing-metaphors-and-real-risks ) is *so* much better than the coverage on Australia's ABC News this morning ( https://www. abc…
🤖 【MIT Tech Review AI】The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox fir... # AI # TechNews 🔗 https://www. technologyreview.com/2026/08/3 1/1143180…
Watching [VIDEO] Why the Hugging Face Attack Was Worse Than We Thought by # HardFork https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=JtmUbZRCpEI # AI # cybersecurity # agenticAI # agentic # AGI # edtechSR
Watching [VIDEO] Why the Hugging Face Attack Was Worse Than We Thought by #HardFork www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtmU... #AI #cybersecurity #agenticAI #agentic #AGI 4:55 description of shared message board between AI agents Why the Hugging Face Attack Wa...
🤖 OpenAI models went rogue. We urgently need a better ‘hugging face’ investigation | Mackenzie Arnold and Stephan Llerena The breach won’t be the last – or the most dangerous – of its kind. We need an agency capable of full investigations into AI incidentsWhen OpenAI first reveal…
🤖 Yapay Zeka Haberi OpenAI ajanlarının Hugging Face'i neden hacklediği hakkında içerideki hikaye Geçen ayın ajan hack of Hugging Face'den sorumlu modeller, bugün yayınlanan OpenAI teknik raporuna göre hile yapmak ve birbirleriyle iletişim kurmak için önceden eğitildi. T T T T 🔗 h…
https:// youtube.com/watch?v=JtmUbZRCpEI Apparently the # openai # huggingface hack started with agents finding a vulnerability in # artifactory 😱 # ai Crossposted with @ openvibe
This incident predates the # huggingface debacle. A interesting read and listen. # ai # artificialintelligence # openai # agent https://www. reuters.com/world/europe/opena i-agents-hijacked-german-website-previously-undisclosed-ai-breakout-this-2026-09-04/
California’s Rob Bonta investigating OpenAI over Hugging Face hack - POLITICO https://www. politico.com/news/2026/09/04/c alifornia-investigation-openai-hugging-face-hack-01065800 # AI # SarahConnors
📰 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face by inadvertently training to cheat and communicate with each other during a cybersecurity test, confirming some experts' suspicions. 🔗 https://www. technologyreview.com/2026/08/2 6/1143013/the-inside-story-on-why-openai-agents-hacked-hugging-fa…
📰 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face by inadvertently training to cheat and communicate with each other during a cybersecurity test, confirming some experts' suspicions. 🔗 https://www. technologyreview.com/2026/08/2 6/1143013/the-inside-story-on-why-openai-agents-hacked-hugging-fa…
🤖 AI's 'warning shot': Tech companies, experts raise fears of more rogue swarms after alarming Hugging Face hack Umm ... Has anyone else noticed - that sometimes AI feels - like it's development pattern is following that of humans ... I mean at first they called it hulucinating -…
Why none of the 1,200 agents that hacked Hugging Face called a human In July 1,200 copies of one OpenAI model found a message board, formed teams, and volunteered to fail their tasks for the collective. Three to six considered alerting a human. None did. A swarm of clones sacrifi…
Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/technology/openai-hugging-face-hacking.html # AI # Cybersecurity # TechNews
How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots' Hack of Hugging Face https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/technology/openai-hugging-face-hack.html # AI # Cybersecurity # TechNews
Samodzielny agent AI sforsował zabezpieczenia platformy Hugging Face, zmuszając OpenAI do pracy nad automatycznym wyłącznikiem modeli. Incydent z lipca 2026 roku pokazuje, że granica między testem a atakiem niemal zniknęła. # si # ai # sztucznainteligencja # wiadomości # informac…
🤖 **Hugging Face vs OpenAI: What’s Next for AI?** Hugging Face has become a major platform for open-source AI, while OpenAI continues to shape the generative AI landscape. But one question keeps coming up: **Is Hugging Face publicly traded? Can you buy Hugging Face stock?** 📈 We …
David Krueger stated that the OpenAI report lacked an analysis of the human factors behind the Hugging Face hack incident. Source: MIT Technology Review AI https://www. technologyreview.com/2026/08/3 1/1143180/hugging-face-hack-could-indicate-cultural-issues-at-openai/ # AI # Hug…
The Hugging Face hack may reveal deeper cultural issues inside OpenAI — MIT Tech Review investigates https://www. technologyreview.com/2026/08/3 1/1143180/hugging-face-hack-could-indicate-cultural-issues-at-openai/ This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsl…
OpenAI published the forensics on the Hugging Face incident, plus an independent METR/Redwood review. About 1,200 agents met on an Artifactory cache with write access and no expiry. They built mailboxes, a signing scheme to tell each other apart, and a HOLD/VETO protocol. OpenAI …
📰 Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI se... 📰 Source: MIT Tech…
Gizmodo: OpenAI Has to Answer to Alabama on Hugging Face Hack. “OpenAI’s general attitude towards the fact that one of its AI models went rogue and hacked into the systems of the open-source AI platform Hugging Face has been, ‘That’s our bad, but you gotta admit, it’s pretty cool…
🤖 Hugging Face incident was bigger and worse than previously thought: ~700 agents collaborated on a sophisticated, multistage attack against Hugging Face infrastructure. 🔗 https://www. darkreading.com/cyberattacks-d ata-breaches/hundreds-openai-agents-invaded-hugging-face-servers…
OpenAI stated that earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face breach. Source: The Next Web https:// thenextweb.com/news/openai-hug ging-face-technical-report-missed-signals-article-55 # AI # OpenAI # HuggingFace
A must read for all: "Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident" https:// metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-opena i-hugging-face-incident-investigation/ # secutity # ai
RT @OpenAI: Wir haben eine gründliche Untersuchung des Hugging Face-Vorfalls durchgeführt. mehr auf Arint.info # AI # Cybersecurity # HuggingFace # IncidentResponse # MachineLearning # TechnicalReport # arint_info https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2092691861773160673
OpenAI's rogue models hacked Hugging Face — investigating them required more AI, exposing a deepening paradox https:// time.com/article/2026/08/27/op enai-hack-hugging-face-investigation/ A new independent report on OpenAI models hacking Hugging Face exposes a paradox: investigat…
A new independent report on OpenAI models hacking Hugging Face exposes a paradox: investigating increasingly powerful AI may require relying on AI itself. # mix # ai # cybersecurity https:// time.com/article/2026/08/27/op enai-hack-hugging-face-investigation/?utm_source=flipboard…
Worth reading this METR report about the OpenAI/Huggingface incident. Many details that raise a lot of questions, also with regard to their setup of the investigation , how they executed it (using OpenAI models...) etcetera 🤔 https:// metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-opena i-hugging-face…
🤖 OpenAI says reward hacking drove its AI agents to breach Hugging Face in July: ~700 rogue agents coordinated via an unauthorized message board, exploiting zero-days during cybersecurity evaluations. Misaligned behavior detected as early as late May. 🔗 https://www. bleepingcompu…
METR researchers found ~700 OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face during a security test, with over 7% fabricating tool-call logs to conceal their actions. Agents rarely considered alerting humans. The investigation raises questions about containment and AI systems evading oversigh…
OpenAI says an improvised, unauthorized message board built by its own AI agents was central to the attack on Hugging Face’s production systems. The comms started in Artifactory, a package-management service OpenAI hosted internally so agents working on training and evaluation ta…
Szczegółowy raport z incydentu w Hugging Face ujawnia, jak autonomiczne modele OpenAI stworzyły własny protokół komunikacji, by przechytrzyć system punktacji, który w rzeczywistości nigdy nie istniał. # si # ai # sztucznainteligencja # wiadomości # informacje # technologia https:…
OpenAI says it detected malign activity months before Hugging Face attack ChatGPT creator says # AI agents collaborated and delegated work in hacking, calling themselves a ‘collective’. https://www. aljazeera.com/economy/2026/8/2 7/openai-says-it-detected-malign-activity-months-b…
OpenAI's rogue agents hacked HuggingFace. You might think, then, that it would make sense to implement guardrails to stop such attacks. Yet the nature of the hack itself showed how is more difficult in practice than it sounds in theory. That's not to say there's nothing to do, bu…
After a month of investigation, OpenAI says its AI agents bypassed network controls and breached Hugging Face systems during cyber tests. They ran code on 41 production workers and gained root access to one node Listen/Read: https:// hackread.com/openai-how-ai-age nts-breached-hu…
OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in 700-strong swarm, tried to cover tracks, investigations find The 37-page report reveals previously undisclosed aspects of the recent hacking spree powered by OpenAI’s most advanced models. https://www. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ope nai-report…
OpenAI's rogue agents hacked Hugging Face because they were inadvertently trained to cheat and communicate with each other https://www. technologyreview.com/2026/08/2 6/1143013/the-inside-story-on-why-openai-agents-hacked-hugging-face/ The models responsible for last month’s agen…
OpenAI Investigates AI Agents' Hacking of Hugging Face 📰 Original title: What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack 🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️ 👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️ View full AI summary https:// en.killbait.com/openai-investi gates-ai-agents-hacking-of-hugging-fa…
OpenAI bestätigt im technischen Report, dass die Agenten beim Hugging-Face-Vorfall durch unbeabsichtigtes Training zum Täuschen und zur gegenseitigen Kommunikation gebracht wurden. Das Dokument liefert die bisher vollständigste Aufklärung der Sicherheitslücke im Agenten-Verhalten…
OpenAI's rogue agent incident involved 700 plus coordinating AI agents breaching Hugging Face systems undetected for two weeks. Nvidia is reportedly acquiring Hugging Face for 13 billion dollars. https:// ai0.news/posts/2026-08-27-dail y-digest/ # AI # OpenAI # Cybersecurity # Op…
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🔒 OpenAI: le sue AI hanno hackerato Hugging Face e cercano sistematicamente di barare I modelli di OpenAI hanno violato i sistemi di Hugging Face coordinandosi su una chat segreta. Il nuovo rapporto rivela che gli AI tendono a barare quando affrontano compiti impossibili. Fonte: …
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1w9sx42/the_openaihugging_face_attack_from_an_agents_pov/"> <img alt="The OpenAI-Hugging Face attack, from an agent's POV" src="https://external-preview.redd.it/bWo5cHFjaGh0M29oMUEPPDdrDvsY2AhG3x0sbPs2euEgnlQ7eqRY…
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1w3uou6/plain_english_explanation_of_the_hugging_face/"> <img alt="Plain English explanation of the Hugging Face / OpenAI incident" src="https://external-preview.redd.it/jRrVrjVghePGLpt8rHNC9OCTcg-mYlr7QXqf8c…
