OpenAI’s rogue agent hacked an account at a second technology firm: Report

The latest hack comes after an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed AI firm Hugging Face’s servers.Published On 29 Jul 202629 Jul 2026The rogue artificial intelligence model that broke out of a controlled test and hacked another AI company also compromised a customer at a second technology firm, the Reuters news agency reports.According to a timeline published on Tuesday by Hugging Face – the company hacked by OpenAI’s test model – the rogue agent broke into an isolated testing environment (or sandbox) “hosted on a third-party provider’s infrastructure” and launched its latest hack from there.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3What is the AI Kill Switch Act proposed in the US and how will it work?list 2 of 3The AI military complex: Which are the main companies in it?list 3 of 3Sam Altman says AI has entered ‘singularity’: Should we be worried?end of listHugging Face did not name the third-party company, but Reuters has reported that it was New York-based Modal Labs.Modal’s chief technology officer, Akshat Bubna, said the agent exploited vulnerable code written by a customer that was hosted on their platform.“Modal’s platform or isolation were not compr...