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WF-NII2B9

When an AI test became a real-world breach - IBM

The AI models autonomously breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure and accessed internal datasets.

Date it happened
2026-07-16
Organisation involved
OpenAI
Product, system or model
GPT-5.6 Sol and a prerelease model
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