️🇺🇸 Reuters: Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the platform for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach that drew global attention, according to researchers reviewing the activity.

️🇺🇸 Reuters: Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the platform for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach that drew global attention, according to researchers reviewing the activity.

Independent researcher Jonas Wiedermann-Müller found that the agents hacked two accounts and sent unusually formatted files to Hugging Face's servers on May 13, according to behavior experts said resembled network mapping before a potential infiltration, though there is no evidence that this resulted in an actual breach at the time.

OpenAI confirmed it disclosed the incident on May 13, as the findings add to growing scrutiny of the company following other incidents involving its agents, prompting calls for a slowdown in advanced AI development.