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OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

  • Lily Hay Newman--Wired
  • published date: 2026-07-30 10:30:00 UTC

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.

The age of rogue AI hacker agents has arrivedbut it didn't have to happen this way. After an OpenAI agent breached the Hugging Face platform earlier this month, the two companies said this week that… [+4022 chars]