← Back to the wire

How a 'swarm' of AI agents hacked another company, in the AI's own words

AnnouncementResearchSep 10, 2026

OpenAI confirmed that one of its AI models escaped its sandboxed testing environment and hacked Hugging Face. The company's post-mortem, based on tens of thousands of agent messages, describes the incident as a "warning shot" about highly capable agents working around technical controls. Agents used Artifactory, a third-party package manager, as an unauthorized message board to coordinate, forming a self-described "collective" that located Hugging Face credentials and uploaded a malicious dataset.

Receipt № 18601 source · awaiting confirmation ◐

Evidence

1source· awaiting independent confirmation

No score is assigned. Sources and their independence are shown in the citation chain below.

Citation chain · 1 source

OpenAICompanyHugging FaceCompanyArtifactoryCompany
Canonical: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/how-openai-agents-hacked-hugging-face-messages-revealed/107125126