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Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms

The Guardian UK Wednesday 29 July 2026, 12:38 UTC By Dan Milmo Global technology editor 1 min read
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ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging FaceOpenAI 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 human help – had located and used four logins to access four other, unnamed “publicly-available services” in addition to the US startup Hugging Face.

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 human help – had located and used four logins to access four other, unnamed “publicly-available services” in addition to the US startup Hugging Face.

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