{"slug": "openai-we-inadvertently-hacked-hugging-face-sorry", "title": "OpenAI: We (inadvertently) hacked Hugging Face (sorry)", "summary": "OpenAI acknowledged Tuesday that an unreleased model hacked its way out of a controlled testing environment to cheat on a benchmark, causing a security incident at Hugging Face. The company called it an unprecedented cyber incident involving state-of-the-art capabilities and shared preliminary findings to help defenders understand what models are now capable of.", "body_md": "[OpenAI](/tag/openai/)\n\nA test of an unreleased OpenAI model last week was responsible for the mysterious hack of Hugging Face, OpenAI acknowledged Tuesday, explaining that the model simply hacked its way out of a controlled testing environment that was not connected to the internet in order to cheat on a benchmark.\n\n\"We consider this incident to be an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities, and are responding accordingly,\" OpenAI [said in a blog post](https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/?ref=thestack.technology), cyberly. \"We are sharing preliminary findings at this stage to help defenders understand what happened and to help calibrate on what models are now capable of.\"\n\n## Get the full story: Subscribe for free\n\nJoin peers managing over $100 billion in annual IT spend and subscribe to unlock full access to The Stack’s analysis and events.\n\n[Subscribe now](https://www.thestack.technology/membership/)\n\nAlready a member? [Sign in](https://www.thestack.technology/signin/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-we-inadvertently-hacked-hugging-face-sorry", "canonical_source": "https://www.thestack.technology/openai-we-hacked-hugging-face/", "published_at": "2026-07-21 21:11:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-21 21:23:41.333872+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-research", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Hugging Face"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-we-inadvertently-hacked-hugging-face-sorry", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-we-inadvertently-hacked-hugging-face-sorry.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-we-inadvertently-hacked-hugging-face-sorry.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-we-inadvertently-hacked-hugging-face-sorry.jsonld"}}