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By Raphael Satter, Deepa Seetharaman and Kenrick Cai

Jul 27 2026 6:08AM

Until ⁠well after the threat was contained.

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 days-long hacking spree that OpenAI ⁠didn't notice until ⁠well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar with the investigation. The agent – a program capable of making ...

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