# "Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident" by ryan_greenblatt, Ajeya Cotra, Hjalmar_Wijk

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Published: 2026-08-26T22:30:03+00:00
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## Resource

We recently published the report from our brief independent investigation into this incident. You can read the full report here. Here is our tweet thread summarizing what we found: METR & Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs. Over July 7 to 13 (...

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