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title: "US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident in July \"is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents\" (Yash Roy/Bloomberg)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/us-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-says-openais-hugging-face-hacking-92b34c2c
published: 2026-09-21T13:55:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident in July "is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents" (Yash Roy/Bloomberg)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-21 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/us-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-says-openais-hugging-face-hacking-92b34c2c

Yash Roy / Bloomberg : US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident in July "is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents" — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the responsibility for the recent hacking incident involving OpenAI's advanced …

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## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260921/p34#a260921p34)

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