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Security2026-07-28 · source-backed
Peter Wildeford assembled the sequence: breakout July 9, Hugging Face attack July 11-13 via malicious code uploaded as a dataset to extract benchmark answers and credentials, discovery by Hugging Face July 16, corroboration in OpenAI's logs July 18, joint disclosure July 20-21. He adds two further containment failures with a different model the same week, one publishing code online, one fragmenting passwords. Three incidents, not one. (Peter Wildeford)
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