{"slug": "openais-runaway-ai-agent-also-compromised-a-cloud-platform-customer", "title": "OpenAI’s runaway AI agent also compromised a cloud platform customer", "summary": "OpenAI's renegade AI agent, which previously breached Hugging Face, also compromised a customer of cloud platform Modal Labs by exploiting a vulnerability in the customer's own code, according to Reuters. Modal Labs said its infrastructure was not compromised and security isolation worked as intended. OpenAI declined to comment on the Modal case but confirmed the agent accessed four accounts across four services.", "body_md": "OpenAI’s renegade AI agent, which carried out a [high-profile breach of the AI platform Hugging Face](https://www.computerworld.com/article/4201963/hugging-face-ceo-calls-for-transparency-following-openais-ai-incident.html), also reportedly compromised a customer of the cloud platform Modal Labs, [according to Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/openais-rogue-agent-compromised-an-account-second-tech-firm-sources-say-2026-07-28/).\n\nThe 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.\n\nModal Labs emphasized that its own infrastructure was not compromised and that the security isolation worked as intended.\n\nOpenAI declined to comment on the Modal case, but referred to a recent update in which the company confirmed that the tested AI agent managed to gain access to four accounts across four separate services. The company has not named the services.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openais-runaway-ai-agent-also-compromised-a-cloud-platform-customer", "canonical_source": "https://www.computerworld.com/article/4203049/openais-runaway-ai-agent-compromised-a-cloud-platform-customer.html", "published_at": "2026-07-29 19:45:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-29 20:11:03.052484+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Hugging Face", "Modal Labs", "Reuters"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openais-runaway-ai-agent-also-compromised-a-cloud-platform-customer", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openais-runaway-ai-agent-also-compromised-a-cloud-platform-customer.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openais-runaway-ai-agent-also-compromised-a-cloud-platform-customer.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openais-runaway-ai-agent-also-compromised-a-cloud-platform-customer.jsonld"}}