Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations It happened again! This is turning into something of a pattern. Last week OpenAI accidentally exploited Hugging Face when one of their frontier models broke out of a sandboxed container and hacked into Hugging Face to try and get the solutions to the cyber benchmark it was executing. This inspired Anthropic to double-check their own logs, and it turned out they had three similar (albeit less impressive) incidents, the earl
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Published: 30 July 2026
Source: Simon Willisons Weblog
Category: Field notes
Topics: Military & security · Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 31 July 2026
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