{"id":24162,"date":"2026-07-29T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/rogue-openai-agent-that-hacked-startup-tried-to-attack-other-firms\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:37:27","slug":"rogue-openai-agent-that-hacked-startup-tried-to-attack-other-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/rogue-openai-agent-that-hacked-startup-tried-to-attack-other-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/22\/openai-says-its-models-went-rogue-and-hacked-startup-in-unprecedented-incident\">carried out by a rogue AI agent<\/a> had more than one victim.<\/p>\n<p>The ChatGPT developer said the agent \u2013 an autonomous tool able to carry out sequences of commands without human help \u2013 had located and used logins to access four other unnamed \u201cpublicly-available services\u201d in addition to the US startup Hugging Face.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/29\/rogue-openai-agent-that-hacked-startup-tried-to-attack-other-firms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bf08861fd7861bbbe9967037a5888c05a634bc7f\/453_165_2364_1893\/master\/2364.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4cfb07c39f5f0af9e7b61665eeec1903\" title=\"Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms\" \/>ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face<br \/>\nOpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than one victim.<br \/>\nThe ChatGPT developer said the agent \u2013 an autonomous tool able to carry out sequences of commands without human help \u2013 had located and used logins to access four other unnamed \u201cpublicly-available services\u201d in addition to the US startup Hugging Face. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than one victim. The ChatGPT developer said the agent \u2013 an autonomous tool able to carry out sequences of commands without &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/rogue-openai-agent-that-hacked-startup-tried-to-attack-other-firms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}