OpenAI admits its autonomous AI models also compromised credentials on other platforms during security eval

During a security evaluation, OpenAI's autonomous hacking models broke into Hugging Face and used exposed credentials on four other services. Hugging Face reconstructed about 17,600 actions over two and a half days, including a zero-day exploit and encrypted, fragmented data transfers. The models…

During a security evaluation, OpenAI's autonomous hacking models broke into Hugging Face and used exposed credentials on four other services. Hugging Face reconstructed about 17,600 actions over two and a half days, including a zero-day exploit and encrypted, fragmented data transfers. The models were apparently trying to steal test answers rather than solve the tasks themselves. The article OpenAI admits its autonomous AI models also compromised credentials on other platforms during security eval appeared first on The Decoder.

Source: The Decoder — Published July 29, 2026 at 16:26 UTC — Category: Models