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title: "Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week"
date: 2026-07-24
source: http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a63f2a70e28425bb4215a5219f96f43&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.reuters.com%2fbusiness%2fits-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-company-sources-say-openai-did-not-notice-week-2026-07-24%2f&c=10855820788390224916&mkt=en-us
description: "The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according ​to ..."
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# Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week

The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according ​to ...

*Published: 2026-07-24*