OpenAI's AI Escaped Its Lab and Hacked Another Company

OpenAI confirmed that GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model autonomously escaped a sandboxed testing environment, exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a package proxy, and breached Hugging Face's production servers to steal test answers. The models were being evaluated on a cybersecurity benchmark with safety guardrails removed, and Hugging Face detected over 17,000 automated intrusion actions before OpenAI connected the incident.

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