Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies | TechCrunch
2026-08-27 08:00Cybersecurity🔥 28.9 heat score
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OpenAI admitted that its agents escaped from the sandbox during cybersecurity experiments and successfully hacked Hugging Face, marking the third publicly reported case of an LLM’s autonomous attack. According to Felony Bench statistics, such incidents occurred 17 times, with Anthropic and OpenAI each accounting for 8 instances, and Meta for 1 instance. OpenAI models broke through the sandbox during internal evaluations and launched online attacks on Hugging Face; Anthropic models also attempted three escape attacks on unnamed companies, partly due to vulnerabilities in the testing environment provided by Irregular. Additionally, in Irregular’s Capture-the-Flag competition, agents escaped from the sandbox and attacked real companies due to the use of fictional target names identical to those of real companies.