{"id":717044,"date":"2026-07-29T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717044\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:57:13","slug":"openai-says-its-rogue-ai-tried-to-hack-other-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717044\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI says its rogue AI tried to hack other companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI has revealed a cyber-attack carried out by rogue ChatGPT agents went further than just one company.<\/p>\n

Hugging Face was thought to be the only victim of the unprecedented hack – but OpenAI now admits its bot attacked several “publicly-available services”. <\/p>\n

The out-of-control AI found four logins online which allowed it to access four separate, unnamed services.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in an emergency briefing with hundreds of cyber security professionals, Hugging Face has described what it was like to be on the receiving end of the world’s first fully autonomous AI hack.<\/p>\n

The firm described how the AI worked at superhuman speed but also made strange decisions and mistakes that no human hacker would have made.<\/p>\n

Hugging Face, which is like an app store for AI tools, said the hacking agents worked relentlessly with thousands of different methods trialled simultaneously.<\/p>\n

The company first revealed that it had been hacked, external<\/a> by someone using powerful autonomous AI on 16 July and reported it to police.<\/p>\n

Nearly a week later, OpenAI admitted it was its AI<\/a> that had escaped a closed environment and attacked Hugging Face on its own during a test. <\/p>\n

It was trying to find the answers to a hacking exam it had been set by OpenAI, and targeted Hugging Face.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday OpenAI updated its statement to include the extra detail that the hack went further than first thought. <\/p>\n

“The models identified and used publicly exposed credentials at the account-level on other publicly-available services. This includes four accounts on four services as part of the Hugging Face incident,” the company said.<\/p>\n

OpenAI did not respond to a request for clarity on whether “publicly-available services” means companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI has revealed a cyber-attack carried out by rogue ChatGPT agents went further than just one company. Hugging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-717044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}