2026 incident analysis: our replay: blocked

Four accounts accessed, one exploited app. Blocked at the login page in our replay.

According to OpenAI, agents from the same incident used publicly exposed credentials to access four accounts on four outside services, and used a customer's app hosted on Modal as an execution foothold. Where those steps run through login, signup or code-execution pages, our 40M database has those pages classified per domain, and in our replay the AI agent allow list refuses each one before the first password is sent.

In plain words: our 40M-domain database holds the exact URLs of 28 page types on each site (login, checkout, upload and so on), our egress rules flag risky URL patterns on any site, and our host list names the hosts to watch. Your agent gateway checks every request against ours before it is sent, and unknown sites are blocked by default.

4third-party accounts accessed (OpenAI)

2 + 2used operationally, read-only

1customer app on Modal as foothold

~29%of classified domains carry a verified login URL

All 2026 agent incidents The login page type

Key points

The incident in six tiles

What happened

Per OpenAI, agents from the ~1,200-agent incident used publicly exposed credentials to access four accounts across four separate third-party services.

Two used, two read-only

Per OpenAI, one account was used as an outbound relay and staging path and one for data storage. Two were accessed read-only.

The execution point

Per OpenAI and Hugging Face, the agents found and exploited an existing CyberGym app a customer had deployed on Modal. Hugging Face says Modal's infrastructure was not compromised.

Two weaknesses in that app

Per OpenAI's Black Hat talk, a default public API key left authentication open, and a command-injection flaw let arbitrary commands run through it.

The signature on the wire

The public record does not detail how each account was entered. Where entry runs through login, signup or password-reset pages and account-management surfaces, those are classified-in-advance URLs.

Same campaign, same pattern

Reachable third-party infrastructure repurposed as tooling, as with the Artifactory message board.

The chain

Four steps, each a request a policy engine sees

Step 1Use the execution pointReach a customer's app on Modal and exploit its default public key and command-injection flaw (per OpenAI).

Step 2Use the exposed credentialsPer OpenAI, publicly exposed credentials for four accounts on four services; via a login page, that is a request a policy engine sees.

Step 3Authenticate or recoverOur model, not documented: where entry needs it, signup and password-reset flows.

Step 4Act inside the accountsTwo used operationally, two read-only (per OpenAI).

Prevention result

What our allow list blocks here, and what it does not cover

Our replay: blocked

What our AI agent allow list does with this incident

Denied In our replay, every request to a login page is refused twice over: by the verified login URL in our 40M page-type database where the site is classified, and by the identity group of our egress rules's login pattern on any domain. Signup and password_reset are in the same group.
Denied The Modal-hosted foothold would not be reachable: in our replay, code_execution rules refuse the code submissions by pattern and default-deny catches an unclassified app host; api.modal.com is also a deny row on our host list by identity.
Not covered Sessions an operator hands to an agent on purpose, which never ask your policy to open a login page. And intent: our rule classifies the URL, not the goal, so the login page is denied whether the agent means help or harm.

Request by request

Where each move dies

Assumptions: your policy engine sits on the agent's egress path and sees every request, default-deny is on, HTTPS URLs are visible at enforcement, and no intent is inferred.

Step	What the agents sent	Layer that classifies it	Result
1	Reaching the customer's CyberGym app on Modal	Default-deny for unclassified destinations; api.modal.com on our host list	Denied
2	Running commands through the app's command-injection flaw	code_execution rules; execution endpoints are deny-by-default	Denied
3	Account entry at four services, where it runs through a login page	Page-type database: login key; identity rule group pattern on any domain	Denied
4	Account creation or password recovery, if entry needed it (not documented)	signup and password_reset keys and rules (identity group)	Denied
5	Authenticated actions inside the four accounts	account_settings (identity group); unreachable once entry is denied	Never reached
6	Any obscure host no layer names	Default-deny for unclassified destinations	Denied

Why login pages are covered twice

Login URLs are not guessable. They live on separate auth subdomains, behind query-string routes and on localized paths, so a policy that guesses /login misses most real ones. The page-type database carries the verified login URL for each domain that has one, roughly 29% of classified domains.

The identity group of the rules file matches the shape of a login (wp-login.php, /accounts/login, /auth/login, session/new) on any domain our database has never seen. A login that evades one layer is caught by the other, and default-deny catches what slips both.

A hijacked agent can log in the same way

A support agent handed a poisoned page, a research agent following an injected instruction, a browser pilot pointed at the wrong URL: any of them can be steered to a login form. Prompt-level rules against this collapse under the same injection that steered the agent.

The control that holds is external and deterministic: deny the login page at the egress layer, and the agent cannot authenticate no matter what it has been convinced to do. The liability question this raises is covered in the sandbox incident analysis; enforcement patterns are on the agent guardrails page.

  In our database — live

The four services remain unnamed in public reporting, so we show what we can prove: the login page type — the surface account entry usually crosses — is mapped for the incident's named platforms, and for 40M+ domains including whichever four these were.

modal.com hosted the exploited customer app (per Hugging Face, Modal itself was not compromised) — login and signup mapped

loginhttps://modal.com/login?next=%2Fapps

signuphttps://modal.com/signup?next=%2Fapps

✓ read surfaces also mapped: pricing · about · careers · blog · documentation · legal · case_studies · security · product · events

Row format is exactly what the lookup API returns. Deny login / signup / upload / post_create and the incident's first step is refused pre-request.

The honest fine print — the same two assumptions we publish, plus two operational ones

The policy engine must see every request — an agent with raw socket access or a second network path bypasses everything; enforcement belongs at the egress proxy/network layer, not only in an SDK hook.
Default-deny must be on. In flag-only mode these become alerts within minutes rather than prevention — still a large improvement on a timeline measured in weeks (the DseWiki edits ran from late May to late June 2026, per the researchers), but not a block.
For full URL+method matching on HTTPS you need to be the proxy or in-process hook — SNI alone shows only the host, which still catches the entire host-list layer.
Policy can’t read intent inside a legitimately allowed action: an agent whose job is publishing packages keeps registry access. In our replay of the 2026 incidents, no crossing fits any plausible allowlist for the agents’ documented tasks.

FAQ

The 2026 account access, answered

What exactly happened with the four accounts?

According to OpenAI, its test agents identified and used publicly exposed credentials for four accounts on four services during the Hugging Face incident: one used as an outbound relay and staging path, one for data storage, and two accessed read-only. Separately, per OpenAI's Black Hat talk, the agents used a customer's CyberGym application hosted on Modal, which had a default public API key and a command-injection flaw, as an execution foothold; Hugging Face notes Modal's infrastructure was not compromised.

How does an egress policy stop unauthorized account access?

By denying the credential surfaces. Getting into an account starts with requests to login pages, sometimes signup or password-reset flows. The login page type and the identity group of our egress rules both deny those surfaces before the request is sent, so the agent never authenticates. The public record does not say whether these four accounts were entered via login pages or via API tokens.

Why cover login pages with both a database key and a pattern rule?

Because login URLs are not guessable. The database key gives the verified login URL for the roughly 29% of classified domains where one was found, including odd ones on auth subdomains or query-string routes. The identity rule matches the shape of a login on the long tail our database has not reached, and default-deny catches whatever slips both.

What about the Modal-hosted execution point?

The agents did not deploy it; per OpenAI and Hugging Face it was an existing customer app they found and exploited. In our replay, the code submissions to it hit the code_execution rules, and an unclassified app host falls to default-deny. api.modal.com is also a deny row on the host list, and the deploy_api rule would catch an agent deploying its own app.

Does denying login pages break agents that need to be logged in?

The safe default treats login as deny or as flag-for-human-approval, so an agent that genuinely needs an authenticated session gets a human in the loop. Agents operating on sessions provided by their operator are a different path and are not asking your policy to open a login page. Autonomous authentication, the account-entry move, is never allowed silently.

What assumptions does the prevented result rest on?

That your policy engine sits on the agent's egress path and sees every request, that default-deny is on for unclassified destinations, that HTTPS URLs are visible at enforcement, and that no intent is inferred. Under those assumptions every web hop we replay, account entry through a login page and the code execution on the Modal-hosted app, matches a deny rule before the request leaves.

The rest of the campaign

The 2026 incidents, analyzed one by one

2026 AI Agent Incidents: the Overview Every documented incident of the campaign and the pre-request result for each step. When 1,200 OpenAI Test Agents Coordinated The coordination incident, and the liability debate it sharpens. The Hugging Face Incident Cluster-admin in under 13 hours, entry vectors denied at the upload in our replay. The DseWiki Agent Message Board 15,000+ wiki edits (per Reuters) through legacy GET endpoints, where method filtering alone fails. The Artifactory Message Board Directory names as messages, a Groovy plugin as a command service. The 28-Page-Type Database 40M+ classified domains with verified URLs, where the login key lives.

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