Security Scan: Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accident

Summary

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This website contacted 4 IPs in 2 countries across 3 domains to perform 9 HTTP transactions. The main domain is simonwillison.net and was registered 7 years ago.

Submitted URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #366,762 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Low Risk

Confidence: 85%

Risk Score

The page is a legitimate blog article with no malicious indicators.

Safety Factors

Established domain with long registration history

Self‑branding indicates legitimate ownership

Absence of forms or credential collection

No malicious IoC or malware detections

Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Scan Type

public

Favicon Hash

MMH3: 1610400867

MD5: 607b20fc7c49dbcdd8a25889c5e2f1a0

Domain Name Analysis

The domain 'simonwillison.net' uses the network infrastructure generic top-level domain (.net) without a subdomain. Count 13 characters in 'simonwillison' containing 5 vowels alongside 8 consonants. It segments into 4 words: simon, will, is, on. Average segment length settles at three characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

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Page Load Overview

0.57s

Total Load Time

56 KB

Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English

Code: en

Confidence:80%

Script:Latin

Direction:ltr

Detection Details

HTML Lang Attribute:en-gb

Text Length:7,259 chars

Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

news/blog40% confidence

Type: dynamic

Method: structural

All Detected Categories

news/blog

40%

Detected Features

OG: article

Domain & IP Information

Requests	IP Address	Location	AS Autonomous System
3	185.111.111.156	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany	AS212238Datacamp Limited
2	188.114.97.9Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
2	142.251.127.119Google · CDN	United States	AS15169Google LLC
2	188.114.96.9Cloudflare · WAF	United States	AS13335Cloudflare, Inc.
9	4	-	-