OpenAI’s rogue agent compromised a customer at a second tech firm, executive says

This shows that the rogue agent roamed further afield than was previously known

2 min readNew DelhiJul 30, 2026 09:25 AM IST OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses the gathering during the India AI Impact Summit, in New Delhi, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (PTI Photo) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Wednesday that he was meeting with U.S. senators to talk about his company’s upcoming models while President Dona

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WASHINGTON, July 29 : OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday said he is meeting with U.S. senators to talk about his company's upcoming models, more than a week after his company disclosed that one of its AI systems had ‌gone rogue during testing. Altman met with Senators Raphael Warnock and Bernie Moreno on Wednesday, acc

In an update late Tuesday to a blog post detailing its probe into the incident, OpenAI said its AI agent affected these "publicly available services," though it did not name the companies.

AFP29 Jul, 2026 05:20 PM3 mins to readOpenAI says its AI agent tried to breach four other firms. Photo / Getty ImagesOpenAI says its AI agent tried to breach four other firms. Photo / Getty ImagesChatGPT maker OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous artificial intelligence agent which hacked a popular platform for compu

The revelation broadens a cyber incident that OpenAI described as unprecedented. It began when two of its models hacked Hugging Face, a site developers use to store and share AI models and code.

Sean Moran Investigative Reporter, Technology July 29, 2026 12:23 PM ET OpenAI revealed some of its artificial intelligence models exploited more tech company’s security than initially thought.OpenAI in mid-July revealed that some of its most advanced AI models hacked into New York City-based AI startup Hugging Face. T

An OpenAI agent compromised a customer of another technology company, the New York-based firm Modal Labs announced Wednesday. In a technical timeline posted Tuesday, the tech startup Hugging Face explained how an OpenAI agent escaped the AI firm’s isolated testing sandbox and accessed another testing environment “hoste

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent which hacked a popular platform for computer programmers also attempted to breach four other companies during the incident.

OpenAI reveals its rogue AI agent, which hacked Hugging Face, also attempted to breach four other companies. Learn more about the unprecedented AI attack.

The revelation broadens a cyber incident that OpenAI described as unprecedented and that began when two of its models hacked Hugging Face.

The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter.

The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter.

ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than one victim. The ChatGPT developer said the agent – an autonomous tool that can carry out sequences of commands without hu

Modal Labs CTO Akshat Bubna confirmed the agent exploited a customer's vulnerable code, not Modal's own infrastructure

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI s

The maker of ChatGPT has admitted that a cyber-attack carried out by rogue AI agents targeted more than just one company.

The breach appears to have been one stop along a broader path. OpenAI said the models had affected four accounts across four publicly available services.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has admitted a security test dubbed “ExploitGym” spiralled into a real-world cyberattack after a rogue AI allegedly escaped its sandbox and hit public services

OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.

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Modal's chief technology officer, Akshat Bubna, says the rogue agent exploited vulnerable code written by a customer that was hosted on Modal's platform

The latest hack comes after an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed AI firm Hugging Face’s servers.

While the compromise of ​a second ‌customer was just an initial step in its wider hacking campaign, it shows that the rogue agent roamed further afield than was previously known.

In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agent compromised an account at a second tech firm, executive says  Reuters

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The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems

Dozens of tech companies are joining together to launch an AI safety initiative in response to last week's cyberattack involving rogue open AI models.