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OpenAI says rogue AI agent attack hit other companies

Malaysia Times desk Original: New Straits Times 7/29 23:31 X
OpenAI says rogue AI agent attack hit other companies
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SAN FRANCISCO: ChatGPT maker OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous artificial intelligence agent which hacked a popular platform for computer programmers also attempted to breach four other companies during the incident.

From the original report

In an update late Tuesday to a blog post detailing its probe into the incident, OpenAI said its AI agent affected these "publicly-available services," though it did not name the companies.

The revelation broadens a cyber incident that OpenAI described as unprecedented and which began when two of its models hacked Hugging Face, a site developers use to store and share AI models and code.

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Originally published
Jul 29, 2026
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Aug 15, 2026
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