OpenAI disclosed an unusual AI security incident involving a frontier model evaluation and Hugging Face, but the episode cuts through the hype: was this true autonomous intent, an agent following bad scope boundaries, or a warning about giving AI systems real tools and permissions?<\/p>\n
Tom, Scott, and Kevin discuss why anthropomorphizing AI makes the story harder to evaluate, what companies should learn before deploying AI agents into production environments, and why permissions, logging, containment, and incident response matter more than marketing language about models acting on their own.<\/p>\n
Special thanks to Guardsquare for sponsoring this episode! Guardsquare is the leader in mobile application security, with multi-layered protection for your Android and iOS apps. Learn more at Guardsquare.com.<\/a><\/p>\n ** Links mentioned on the show **<\/p>\n OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an \u2018unprecedented\u2019 hack of another company Luta Security: OpenFace: The Hugging Face Breach and What to Do About It Cloud Security Alliance: Hugging Face Incident Initial Post Mortem ** Watch this episode on YouTube **<\/p>\n ** Become a Shared Security Supporter **<\/p>\n Get exclusive access to bonus episodes, listen to new episodes before they are released, receive a monthly shout-out on the show, and get a discount code for 15% off merch at the Shared Security store. Become a supporter today by going to our YouTube channel\u2019s membership section: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg9CCDIYkDDqwEZ3UYaxjnA\/join<\/p>\n ** Thank you to our sponsors! **<\/p>\n SLNT<\/p>\n Visit https:\/\/slnt.com to check out SLNT\u2019s amazing line of Faraday bags and other products built to protect your privacy. As a listener of this podcast you receive 10% off your order at checkout using discount code \u201csharedsecurity\u201d.<\/p>\n ** Subscribe and follow the podcast **<\/p>\n Subscribe on YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SharedSecurityPodcast<\/a><\/p>\n Follow us on Bluesky: https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/sharedsecurity.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n Follow us on Mastodon: https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@sharedsecurity<\/a><\/p>\n Join us on Reddit: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SharedSecurityShow\/<\/a><\/p>\n Visit our website: https:\/\/sharedsecurity.net<\/a><\/p>\n Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: https:\/\/sharedsecurity.net\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n Sign-up for our email newsletter to receive updates about the podcast, contest announcements, and special offers from our sponsors: https:\/\/shared-security.beehiiv.com\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n Leave us a rating and review: https:\/\/ratethispodcast.com\/sharedsecurity<\/a><\/p>\n Contact us: https:\/\/sharedsecurity.net\/contact<\/a><\/p>\n The post OpenAI Says Its AI Hacked Another Company on Its Own<\/a> appeared first on Shared Security Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n *** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Shared Security Podcast<\/a> authored by Tom Eston<\/a>. Read the original post at: https:\/\/sharedsecurity.net\/2026\/08\/03\/openai-says-its-ai-hacked-another-company-on-its-own\/<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI disclosed an unusual AI security incident involving a frontier model evaluation and Hugging Face, but the episode…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17592,21978,1710,10348,8091,313,64017,20205,18044,1741,30201,157,508,64018,64019,64020],"class_list":["post-127723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-agent-security","tag-ai-red-teaming","tag-ai-security","tag-appsec","tag-autonomous-ai-agents","tag-cybersecurity","tag-episodes","tag-frontier-models","tag-hugging-face","tag-incident-response","tag-model-evaluation","tag-openai","tag-privacy","tag-responsible-disclosure","tag-shared-security-podcast","tag-weekly-edition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/openai-gpt56-sol-hugging-face-63ab84fed5612af04d8a160d60f6def3<\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.lutasecurity.com\/post\/openface-the-hugging-face-breach-and-what-to-do-about-it<\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/cloudsecurityalliance.org\/artifacts\/hugging-face-ciso-post-mortem<\/a><\/p>\n