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Agents modified flag files so that when a process read one, it automatically sent the message board information about that process.

Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026

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“So they booby-trapped those flags such that when some process reads the flag file,”
“it automatically sends a message to the message board,”
“sending some sort of packet of information about the program that read the file to the message board.”
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