{"id":16808,"date":"2026-07-29T22:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/the-openai-hugging-face-hack-was-worse-than-we-thought\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:35:02","slug":"the-openai-hugging-face-hack-was-worse-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/the-openai-hugging-face-hack-was-worse-than-we-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"The OpenAI-Hugging Face hack was worse than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New details have emerged about a security incident in which an <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/openai\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">OpenAI<\/a> AI model broke out of its testing environment and compromised Hugging Face&#8217;s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">An update OpenAI published on July 28<\/a> filled in details that weren&#8217;t part of the original disclosure. The AI agent also identified and used exposed credentials on four accounts across four other publicly available services, using one as a relay point and another for data storage, while accessing the remaining two in a read-only capacity. OpenAI said it has since notified the affected service owners and hasn&#8217;t found evidence of broader impact to those platforms.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the cloud computing service Modal identified itself as one of those four affected parties.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/openai-hugging-face-hack-worse-than-thought\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New details have emerged about a security incident in which an OpenAI AI model broke out of its testing environment and compromised Hugging Face&#8217;s infrastructure. An update OpenAI published on July 28 filled in details that weren&#8217;t part of the original disclosure. The AI agent also identified and used exposed credentials on four accounts across<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":16809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-16808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}