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title: "Exclusive-Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week"
date: 2026-07-24
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description: "By Raphael Satter, Deepa Seetharaman and Kenrick Cai WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) - 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,"
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# Exclusive-Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week

By Raphael Satter, Deepa Seetharaman and Kenrick Cai WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) - 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,

*Published: 2026-07-24*