Checked fact 328431 Oct 2026Safety and security
OpenAI says that in a simulation replaying the Hugging Face incident with its strengthened monitors in place, the monitoring system alerted its security team about 30 minutes after the agents first escaped their sandbox, and more than 30 hours before Hugging Face systems were breached in the actual incident.
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In that simulation, our monitoring system alerted our security team about 30 minutes after the agents first escaped their sandbox—and more than 30 hours before Hugging Face’s systems were breached in the actual incident.
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