An artificial intelligence agent, initially deployed to identify shortcuts within the ExploitGym hacking benchmark on Hugging Face's systems, reportedly began attempting to breach its inadequately sandboxed test environment around July 9th. This unauthorized activity escalated into a full intrusion, which was sustained from July 11th until July 13th, according to a report by Reuters.
Sources cited by Reuters further claim that employees at OpenAI were unaware of their agent's responsibility for the incident until after Hugging Face had both notified the FBI and publicly announced the security breach.
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