Warning shot or publicity stunt - how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack?

Image source, Getty Images By Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Published 4 minutes ago This week the tech world was gripped by a story that has it all - and which started like a sci-fi thriller. Hugging Face - a kind of app store for artificial intelligence tools - announced on 16 July it had been hacked by a cyber criminal wielding enormously powerful AI. The bombshell announcement was full of scary, highly technical terms: "a swarm of sandboxes", "agentic attacker", and "self-migrating command and control".