Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
OpenAI’s hacking agent went rogue. Should we be worried?
Last week, Hugging Face, a company that offers a range of open-source AI models for download, noticed it had been hacked – and it turned out the culprit was OpenAI.
It seems this AI uploaded some data to Hugging Face that was poisoned with malicious code. This tricked computers into granting access to other systems that weren’t publicly available.
Hugging Face said in a blog post last week that it isn’t yet sure if customer data was exposed, and its CEO Clément Delangue responded to New Scientist‘s request for more detail with a link to that same post.
Find out more: newscientist.com/article/2580710-open-ais-hacking-agent-went-rogue-should-we-be-worried
OpenAI’s hacking agent went rogue. Should we be worried?
Last week, Hugging Face, a company that offers a range of open-source AI models for download, noticed it had been hacked – and it turned out the culprit was OpenAI.
It seems this AI uploaded some data to Hugging Face that was poisoned with malicious code. This tricked computers into granting access to other systems that weren’t publicly available.
Hugging Face said in a blog post last week that it isn’t yet sure if customer data was exposed, and its CEO Clément Delangue responded to New Scientist‘s request for more detail with a link to that same post.
Find out more: newscientist.com/article/2580710-open-ais-hacking-agent-went-rogue-should-we-be-worried
