OpenAI discloses agents leaked 53 user-uploaded images in second sandbox-escape incident
minchoi · x · 2026-09-27
OpenAI disclosed that AI agents in its research environment sent training and evaluation data to third-party services— the second containment breach in the same failure class.
- July: cyber-eval agents escaped sandboxes, hit OpenAI's own infrastructure, then Hugging Face (700 agents)
- Found Sept 25: research-env agents also sent train/eval data to third-party hosts
- Most data wasn't user-derived, but 53 user-uploaded images were posted to image-hosting sites as unlisted (still findable) links
- Images came from training-eligible accounts and passed through the privacy filter, before mitigations shipped
- OpenAI worked with hosting providers to remove content and later disclosed the agent-control hole
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