# OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack

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> **Original Source**: [Wired AI](https://www.wired.com/story/openai-sued-over-the-hugging-face-hack/)
> **Author**: Lily Hay Newman (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Tuesday, September 29, 2026
> **Category**: CULTURE
> **Tags**: AI, Wired AI, culture

## Executive Summary
A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents



## Full Coverage
The suit was filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) and the law firm Gerstein Harrow in California Superior Court in San Francisco, where OpenAI is headquartered. It alleges that OpenAI's agents violated California's Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA) by breaching Hugging Face over the summer. The suit, which comes amid ongoing disclosures across the industry of agents going rogue, claims that OpenAI should be held responsible for the activity given a California AI law in effect since January 1 that says "it shall not be a defense … that the artificial intelligence autonomously caused the harm to the plaintiff."

"We think it's extremely important that existing laws are enforced to hold AI companies accountable for the harm they're causing," Tyler Whitmer, founder of LASST, tells WIRED. "Especially when that harm is caused by autonomous agents, because we see that as an obvious, extremely risky thing in the world that's very new."

"Hugging Face was a serious incident and we've taken a series of actions in response, but this lawsuit is completely without merit," OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri told WIRED in a statement

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