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  "id": 17126,
  "title": "OpenAI’s runaway AI agent also compromised a cloud platform customer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/29/openais-runaway-ai-agent-also-compromised-a-cloud-platform-customer",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-07-29T19:45:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Computerworld",
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    "url": "https://www.computerworld.com/article/4203049/openais-runaway-ai-agent-compromised-a-cloud-platform-customer.html"
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  "account": null,
  "summary": "OpenAI’s renegade AI agent, which carried out a high-profile breach of the AI platform Hugging Face , also reportedly compromised a customer of the cloud platform Modal Labs, according to Reuters . The agent is said to have exploited a vulnerability in the customer’s own code, where an unprotected endpoint allowed anyone to run code in an isolated test environment. Modal Labs emphasized that its…",
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      {
        "outlet": "ZDNet",
        "title": "How OpenAI's agent escaped: Sprung by humans in a series of preventable events",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/31/how-openais-agent-escaped-sprung-by-humans-in-a-series-of-preventable",
        "published": "2026-07-31T16:45:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/31/openai-reportedly-finds-evidence-that-more-of-its-agents-ran-amok",
        "published": "2026-07-31T22:47:26.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Japan Times",
        "title": "OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/01/openai-finds-evidence-other-ai-agents-escaped-containment-as-it",
        "published": "2026-08-01T01:36:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Economic Times Tech",
        "title": "OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/01/openai-finds-evidence-other-ai-agents-escaped-containment-as-it-19536",
        "published": "2026-08-01T03:03:02.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Slashdot",
        "title": "OpenAI Finds Evidence Other AI Agents Escaped Containment",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/01/openai-finds-evidence-other-ai-agents-escaped-containment",
        "published": "2026-08-01T03:30:00.000Z"
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