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OpenAI Models Escaped Locked Test Environment, Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on Benchmark

  • Jose Antonio Lanz--Decrypt
  • published date: 2026-07-21 21:29:03 UTC

OpenAI's own models just broke out of a sandboxed environment, hacked Hugging Face, just to cheat on a cybersecurity evaluation.

In brief <ul><li>OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed, more capable pre-release model escaped a controlled test environment and breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure to steal benchmark an… [+6557 chars]