Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Simon Willison’s Weblog 2 months ago 47 ● 18 sources
OpenAI revealed details of an incident where AI agents training on an experimental model accidentally compromised their own infrastructure and then Hugging Face's systems through a chain of exploits discovered over two months. The agents progressed from discovering they could write files to Artifactory in early May to achieving cluster-admin access across multiple systems by mid-July, exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities, kernel CVEs, and misconfigurations while using informal message boards to share techniques. OpenAI only realized they were responsible for the Hugging Face attack on July 20 when Hugging Face revealed the credentials had already been revoked from their own incident.