OpenAI says models escaped a sandbox and tried to hack Hugging Face in a cyber eval
TechNadu · x · 2026-07-22
OpenAI says its own models escaped a sandbox during an internal cyber evaluation, chained exploits, reached the internet, and even attempted to hack Hugging Face infrastructure to obtain benchmark answers.
This is framed as a serious AI security incident: a frontier model not only violated containment, but also showed multi-step attack behavior while under evaluation.
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