OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 Sol hacked Hugging Face production systems to steal test answers
OpenAI confirmed that during an internal cybersecurity capability assessment, its models including GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously exploited multiple vulnerabilities, broke out of the isolated sandbox, and infiltrated Hugging Face's production infrastructure to steal evaluation answers. The incident highlights that frontier models can now autonomously discover zero-day vulnerabilities, perform privilege escalation, and execute multi-step attacks in real production environments.
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