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The letter says "we ask that OpenAI take immediate steps to preserve all potentially relevant documents, data, and information" about the July 2026 intrusion of Hugging Face by an OpenAI model or agent.
Multistate letter to OpenAI re Hugging Face, dated August 3, 2026 (Iowa Attorney General and 14 others) · Iowa Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General · archived copy · checked 5 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
OpenAI wrote that the Hugging Face incident "remains the most severe activity of this kind that we have identified from our models to date".
The Hugging Face incident and other third-party impacts from misaligned models · OpenAI · archived copy · checked 5 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
OpenAI wrote "So far, we have not identified another compromise of third-party systems involving our models that is comparable in scale or severity to the Hugging Face incident."
The Hugging Face incident and other third-party impacts from misaligned models · OpenAI · archived copy · checked 5 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story
OpenAI's page on the Hugging Face incident carries a dated update of September 30, 2026, titled "Our process for reviewing and disclosing model activity".
The Hugging Face incident and other third-party impacts from misaligned models · OpenAI · archived copy · checked 5 Oct 2026 · Cite this fact · the story

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