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EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack

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> WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach of ‌the open-source repository drew global attention, according to researchers who reviewed the…

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  1. 2026-09-16 17:02 · r/artificial
    EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
  2. 2026-09-16 16:55 · r/OpenAI
    EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
  3. 2026-09-16 16:55 · r/singularity
    EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
  4. 2026-09-16 16:52 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack

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