OpenAI's rogue agent went on a hacking spree that lasted days, Reuters says

• ▪News AI OpenAI's rogue agent went on a hacking spree that lasted days, Reuters says It reportedly took the company a week before it realized the AI agent it was testing had escaped.
• ▪By Mariella Moon July 25, 2026 7:15 am EST Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images It took OpenAI a week before it discovered that the agent it was testing broke free and infiltrated Hugging Face on its own, according to Reuters.
• ▪By that time, the repository for AI tools and models had already contacted the FBI.

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• ▪ OpenAI's Rogue Agent Went On A Hacking Spree That Lasted Days, Reuters Says - Engadget — Google News
• ▪ AI agent spent days hacking, but sources say OpenAI didn’t notice for a week — Rappler
• ▪ Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week — Straits Times — World
• ▪ OpenAI reportedly didn’t notice its AI agent hacking Hugging Face until a week later. - The Verge — "OpenAI" - Google News
• ▪ OpenAI reportedly missed rogue AI agent’s hacking spree for a week - Reuters — Investing.com — News
• ▪ Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later (Reuters) — Techmeme
• ▪ Exclusive-Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week — Channel NewsAsia
• ▪ OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days — Tom's Hardware

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