{"id":1024791,"date":"2026-07-30T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024791"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:38:34","slug":"openais-rogue-agent-compromised-customer-at-second-tech-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/openais-rogue-agent-compromised-customer-at-second-tech-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI&#8217;s rogue agent compromised customer at second tech firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company &#8211; New York-based Modal Labs &#8211; according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Modal executives emphasised that the company itself was not hacked. <\/p>\n<p>According to a timeline published by Hugging Face \u200con Tuesday, the \u2060rogue agent \u2060broke into a sandbox, or an isolated testing environment, &#8220;hosted on a third-party provider&#8217;s infrastructure&#8221; before turning it into a launchpad for the broader hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company &#8211; New York-based Modal Labs &#8211; according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter. Modal executives emphasised that the company itself was not hacked. According to a timeline published by Hugging Face \u200con Tuesday, the \u2060rogue agent \u2060broke into a sandbox, or an isolated testing environment, &#8220;hosted on a third-party provider&#8217;s infrastructure&#8221; before turning it into a launchpad for the broader hack.<\/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-1024791","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\/1024791","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=1024791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024796,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024791\/revisions\/1024796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}