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1,200 Agents, 17,600 Actions: Inside the Hugging Face Breach

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On July 8, 2026, roughly 1,200 evaluation agents running inside an OpenAI benchmarking environment found a way to talk to each other. By July 13, the campaign they launched had produced 17,600 recorded actions across several companies' infrastructure, with about 700 of them descending on Hugging Fa…

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    1,200 Agents, 17,600 Actions: Inside the Hugging Face Breach

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