OpenAI Says Rogue AI Agent Attack Hit Other Companies

OpenAI says rogue AI agent attack hit other companies

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent which hacked a popular platform for computer programmers also attempted to breach four other companies during the incident.

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

(Wired) – 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 said Tuesday that the rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Face’s platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. It’s now clear that the unprecedented security incident, which arose during an internal test of OpenAI’s latest AI …

OpenAI's runaway AI agent also compromised a cloud platform customer

OpenAI’s renegade AI agent, which carried out a high-profile breach of the AI platform Hugging Face, also reportedly compromised a customer of the cloud platform Modal Labs, according to Reuters. The agent is said to have exploited a vulnerability in the customer’s own code, where an unprotected endpoint allowed anyone to run code in an isolated test environment. Modal Labs emphasised that its own infrastructure was not compromised and that the …