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Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms

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 able to carry out sequences of commands without human help – had located and used logins to access four other unnamed “publicly-available services” in addition to the US startup Hugging Face. Continue reading...

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Published: 29 July 2026
Source: The Guardian
Category: News
Topics: Military & security · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 30 July 2026

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ethics.ai (29 July 2026), “Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms,” evidence record 14550, https://ethics.ai/record/14550 (originally published by The Guardian).

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