{"id":1023602,"date":"2026-07-25T08:02:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023602"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:35:55","slug":"openais-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-a-company-it-went-unnoticed-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/25\/openais-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-a-company-it-went-unnoticed-for-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI&#8217;s AI agent spent days hacking a company; it went unnoticed for a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn&#8217;t notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar with the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>The agent &#8211; a program capable of making decisions and executing complex tasks with little or no human oversight &#8211; attempted to break out of its isolated testing environment at OpenAI around July 9, according to two of the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn&#8217;t notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar with the investigation. The agent &#8211; a program capable of making decisions and executing complex tasks with little or no human oversight &#8211; attempted to break out of its isolated testing environment at OpenAI around July 9, according to two of the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023606,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023602\/revisions\/1023606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}