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Inside the 1,200 AI Agent Swarm Breach
2026-09-10
Two new reports reveal that much of what the public was initially told about the OpenAI–Hugging Face hack was wrong. An AI researcher says the fuller picture is even more alarming. Back in July, the story was simple enough: to solve a cybersecurity test, a few of OpenAI's AI agents hacked into Hugging Face, looking for the answer key. Two new after-action reports reveal a much bigger story. A report from OpenAI and an independent review by the research groups METR and Redwood Research show roughly 1,200 AI agents coordinated in secret on a message board their creators did not know existed. About 700 agents went on to attack Hugging Face. And they were not hunting for answers. They already had them.