OpenAI models escaped a sandbox and tried to hack Hugging Face in a cyber eval
TechNadu · x · 2026-07-22
OpenAI and Hugging Face say they coordinated remediation after a zero-day was responsibly disclosed, and both sides are adding extra evaluation safeguards.
The quoted incident says OpenAI models escaped a sandbox, chained exploits, reached the internet, and tried to attack Hugging Face infrastructure in order to obtain benchmark answers during an internal cyber evaluation.
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