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METR — Independent investigation of the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident¶
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- Author or issuing body: METR (Ryan Greenblatt, Ajeya Cotra, and Hjalmar Wijk)
- Publication date: 2026-08-26
- Source type: Independent investigation report (investigator-published)
- URL: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/
- Archive URL: None recorded
- Access date: 2026-09-10
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Closest thing to an independent technical account. Authors state they took no payment from OpenAI, worked on premises, and that OpenAI could redact non-public information from the post. Scope was limited (investigation period June 26–July 13, with analysis focused on July 7–13; earlier training-time message-board activity and later OpenAI-infrastructure compromise were out of scope). Use for agent counts, message-board activity, and collaboration findings. Do not treat as a complete forensic of OpenAI's internal response.
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