OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

New details reveal OpenAI’s agent hacked several other companies, intensifying already heightened concerns over advanced AI safety.

OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face

In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.

OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.

Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt

AISI said AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic displayed unprecedented ‘autonomy and deception’ in their test.

EXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week

The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according ​to people familiar with the investigation.

Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

We found evidence on urlquery that AI agents were active earlier than previously reported and attempted hacks against public data providers.

OpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity Evaluation

This latest incident is a rather dramatic escalation in agentic AI cybersecurity breaches.

OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis

Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by …

OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering ‘unprecedented’ breach at startup

OpenAI said that the breakout was “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities,” and that it was reinforcing its safeguards.

OpenAI details more cases of AI agents taking unauthorized actions

OpenAI has presented new examples of what they call "AI model misalignment" from the past six months, including unauthorized file uploads, following self-generated instructions, hiding mistakes, and leveraging exposed API keys.

One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks

Mistakes at Israeli startup Irregular sent Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Google agents after real-world targets.

Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” agents: delete my code

It’s no secret there’s a war going on inside the open source community, with people adopting “AI” on one side, and those that want nothing to do with it on the other. While the former are, by nature, using destructive tactics like mass website scraping, license washing, taking people’s creative works without permission, taking all the RAM and GPUs, and oh, destroying the planet, the latter have mostly stuck to fairly benign things like policies banning “AI” use, “AI” bot blockers, and the occasional honey pot mazes to trap “AI” crawlers.

Exclusive-OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 4 : A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter.OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wra

OpenAI’s models broke free and launched a cyberattack. Congress wants new rules before it happens again.

The first fully autonomous breach by OpenAI’s most powerful AI models has prompted a bipartisan push for stronger oversight over increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models.

Top AI Security Incidents of 2025 Revealed | Adversa AI

Discover how AI systems are being hacked in the wild — from prompt injection to agent abuse — with real breaches, lessons, and defenses in Adversa AI’s 2025 report.