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OpenAI details Hugging Face incident timeline

OpenAI details Hugging Face security incident timeline at Black Hat conference.

Aug 8 · 01:57:08 · primary fetch2 sourcesupdated Aug 8 · 01:57:08

Thanks to the video from the Black Hat security conference of OpenAI's presentation about "The Hugging Face Incident" we now have a detailed timeline of what happened from OpenAI's perspective - I wrote up the details here, it's pretty wild simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/o...

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bsky.appThanks to the video from the Black Hat security conference of OpenAI's presentation about "The Hugging Face Incident" we now have a detailed timeline of what happened from OpenAI's perspective - I wr…primary01:57:08
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