OpenAI's HF Attack Blunder: Discovered They Were the Source During Credential Revocation
AccBalanced · x · 2026-08-09
Simon Willison shared a dramatic detail regarding the security incident between OpenAI and Hugging Face (HF).
OpenAI reached out to HF to revoke a credential, only to discover that HF had already revoked it—because that exact credential had been used to attack HF, revealing that OpenAI itself was the source of the attack.
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