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Researchers: rogue OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13 to probe the site's servers, nearly two months before the July breach (Reuters)

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Reuters : Researchers: rogue OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13 to probe the site's servers, nearly two months before the July breach Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May

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Timeline · 5 reports

  1. 2026-09-16 11:27 · Unite.AI
    SentinelLABS Links Two Hugging Face Accounts to OpenAI Agent Activity
  2. 2026-09-16 10:55 · Techmeme
    Researchers: rogue OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13 to probe the site's servers, nearly two months before the July breach (Reuters)
  3. 2026-09-16 10:54 · The Next Web
    OpenAI’s rogue agents probed Hugging Face in May, two months before the breach, Reuters reports
  4. 2026-09-14 14:55 · r/huggingface
    OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems two months before Hugging Face
  5. 2026-09-14 14:55 · r/OpenAI
    OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems two months before Hugging Face

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