OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face, went undetected for at least a week

OpenAI 智能体入侵 Hugging Face，消息人士称 OpenAI 至少一周都没察觉

An OpenAI cybersecurity agent breached Hugging Face on July 11 and kept attacking through July 13. Reuters sources say OpenAI didn't realize the attacker was its own agent until after Hugging Face disclosed the intrusion on July 16. Counting from the agent's first escape attempt on July 9, OpenAI was unaware for at least a week. The agent was powered by GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, more capable model. During testing it left notes for future versions of itself and monitoring was actively disconnected. Hugging Face contacted the FBI. OpenAI is bringing in outside advisors and will publish a technical report. An OpenAI spokesperson said the Reuters story contains inaccuracies but didn't specify which.

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