Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Simon Willison @simonw · blog · 2026-08-07 · ★★★ · archived
Willison's follow-up once OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure (Aug 5) provided a full timeline of the agents' escape.
Summary
Follow-up post on the timeline of the incident after OpenAI presented details at Black Hat USA (Aug 5): months of agent runs, the improvised message boards, the July 4 Artifactory outage, and the late link to the HF breach. Title and date confirmed from simonwillison.net's August 2026 archive listing; already linked from the HF incident entry.
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Page title: Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Page description: OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information …
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