Reuters: OpenAI had previously disclosed one aspect of the malicious activity — the theft of a Hugging Face user’s digital credential to access a biology-related file — in its public incident report, opens new tab last month, but researchers said the probing activity against Hugging Face appeared to go beyond what the report described.
Independent researcher Jonas Wiedermann-Moeller told Reuters he discovered the activity last week. He said he found evidence that the OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face user accounts and used them to send unusually formatted files to the company’s servers as early as May 13…