Post #4178975

2026-07-29 01:22 UTC

Hohoho the plot thickens. WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter. https://www.reuters.com/business/openais-rogue-agent-compromised-an-account-second-tech-firm-sources-say-2026-07-28/

Replies (8)

@BabblingGeek@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 01:24

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange I’m suspicious that this was truly rogue, and not a valiant last ditch attempt to garner attention and funds for the company.

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@BLTpizza@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 01:31

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange OpenAI committed corporate espionage and a ton of other illegal shit but it's all cool because...

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@grim_elsewhere@lgbtqia.space 2026-07-29 02:28

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange All I hear in my head is "let them fight! Let them fight!"

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@compliance@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 06:29

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange maybe after all it is about getting access to more training data? :)

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@AAKL@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 13:34

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange It's time somebody put an end to this "rogue" narrative.

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@matthubble@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 01:24

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange I hate that we seem to be ok saying “a rogue agent did this” instead of the truth, which is OpenAI the company went on a hacking spree.

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@lawyerjsd@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 01:30

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Oh man. Some lucky lawyer is going to represent these companies and have the best time.

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@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 02:00

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange one of these days it will be busted jail and gone for good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xha2TJ_1C6Q

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