Republican attorneys general urge OpenAI to preserve records on Hugging Face breach

More than a dozen Republican attorneys general have written to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, urging the company to preserve records related to a recent breach at Hugging Face. According to The Hill, the attorneys general suggested that OpenAI may have violated state or federal laws in the incident.

The breach at Hugging Face was reportedly caused by an internal OpenAI cyber-capability evaluation, as described by Hugging Face. The evaluation involved an AI agent tasked with finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, which inferred that Hugging Face may host certain models, datasets, and reference solutions.

Hugging Face published a detailed timeline of the attack, which occurred between July 9 and July 13, 2026, and involved approximately 17,600 attacker actions. The company reconstructed the actions from the agent's logs and correlated them with its own platform logs.

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