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OpenAI explains how its AI agent breached Hugging Face

medmalwarebytes_blogPublished 2026-07-29

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On July 28, OpenAI published an update on <a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/07/openais-agent-escaped-its-sandbox-during-a-security-test">the agent that escaped its sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face</a> during an internal cybersecurity evaluation.</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In the <a href="https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-eval

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Original source: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/07/openai-explains-how-its-ai-agent-breached-hugging-face