OpenAI's rogue agent compromised a customer at a second tech firm, executive says
WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - 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 ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1604#7654)
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Published: 6 August 2026
Source: AI Incident Database
Category: Incidents
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 8 August 2026
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