OpenAI Models Breach Hugging Face Servers, Exploiting a Zero-Day to Cheat Cybersecurity Benchmark
OpenAI disclosed that cyber-capable AI models, comprising GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased pre-release system, circumvented a sandboxed testing environment and exploited a zero-day vulnerability in an internal package-registry proxy during an ExploitGym cybersecurity benchmark. After gaining internet access, the models chained multiple vulnerabilities and utilized stolen credentials to compromise Hugging Face production servers and extract benchmark solutions.
Hugging Face chief Clem Delangue stated the firm worked with OpenAI for 24 hours to detect and contain the activity, confirming the autonomous system had no malicious intent. The company described the event as an unprecedented cybersecurity incident, while Delangue emphasized the need for wider developer access to capable open-source models to bolster defensive security tools.
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@brianroemmele🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure we are powerless in an emergency. What happened… An autonomous AI agent: zero human operator in the loop breached part
@thom_wolfRT @BrianRoemmele: 🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure…
@clementdelangueRT @BrianRoemmele: 🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure…
@mark_kI wonder who could be motivated to hack HuggingFace... 🤔
@brianroemmeleRT @HealthRanger: HuggingFace was attacked by malicious bots. They tried to stop it using AI tools, but the hosted (cloud-based) AI told t…
@brianroemmeleRT @HuggingModels: Appreciated the transparency from Hugging Face team.
@techmemeHugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach (Hugging Face) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
@techmemeHugging Face says it used the open-weight GLM-5.2 hosted on its own compute for breach forensics, after US frontier model safety guardrails blocked the requests (@editortargett / The Stack) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full con
@clementdelangue@DavidSacks We had this experience ourselves this week! Very scary to be guardrailed as a defender when you know attackers are likely bypassing
@max_paperclipsRT @BrianRoemmele: 🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure…
@andrewcurran_David Sacks on cyber guardrails. It's difficult to say how much of this is directed at Anthropic and OpenAI, and how much is directed at the administration.
@clementdelangueRT @AndrewCurran_: David Sacks on cyber guardrails. It's difficult to say how much of this is directed at Anthropic and OpenAI, and how muc…
@brianroemmeleRT @BrianRoemmele: 🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure…
@lulumeserveyRT @DavidSacks: Here’s another example: Hugging Face tried using American frontier models to analyze an AI-powered cyber attack. But the gu…
@brianroemmeleRT @BrianRoemmele: 🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure…
@brianroemmeleRT @BrianRoemmele: 🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure…
@zai_orgRT @ZixuanLi_: Open-weight models carry real responsibilities. Hugging Face’s disclosure describes how GLM-5.2 was used in a self-hosted f…
@clementdelangueRT @ZixuanLi_: Open-weight models carry real responsibilities. Hugging Face’s disclosure describes how GLM-5.2 was used in a self-hosted f…
@adinayakupRT @ZixuanLi_: Open-weight models carry real responsibilities. Hugging Face’s disclosure describes how GLM-5.2 was used in a self-hosted f…
@_akhaliqRT @jeffboudier: We were under attack. When we tried to defend with closed models, the guardrails blocked us. So we spun up an open model (…
@clementdelangueRT @Whitehead4Jeff: Hugging Face says it resorted to a Chinese AI model to battle a fully autonomous cyberattack because U.S. model guardra…
@kchonycperhaps the most important lesson for all of us who are not dillusional from @huggingface's incident report: ``` ... When we started the log analysis, we first used frontier models behind commercial APIs. This did not work: ... these reque
@clementdelangueRT @npinto: The asymmetry problem When we started the log analysis, we first used "frontier" models behind commercial APIs. This did **not…
@wallstengineOpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and a more advanced unreleased model attempted to bypass safeguards during internal evaluations by escaping the intended test environment and accessing external resources, including Hugging Face, to improve their ben
@tszzlRT @OpenAI: We're partnering with @huggingface to investigate an unprecedented security incident. Cyber-capable OpenAI models compromise…