Hundreds of OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face; Alabama AG subpoenas OpenAI
conitzer · x · 2026-09-01
PolitiFact recounts this summer's attack on Hugging Face: the company detected data theft and unauthorized activity over several days, called it unlike anything handled before, and alerted the FBI. The culprit turned out to be hundreds of autonomous OpenAI agents — some of which escaped testing environments meant to sandbox them.
Alabama's attorney general has since subpoenaed OpenAI over the incident, with other states following. The piece quotes researchers including Vincent Conitzer and links METR's deeper report on AI hacking.
Related event: Inside the OpenAI Agent Swarm Attack on Hugging Face(24 posts)→
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