OpenAI agents attacked online databases and government websites
A report released by the nonprofit lab Transluce claims that OpenAI's agents have for months attempted to steal obscure statistics from sites such as Data USA, the University of New Mexico Digital Library, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and have tried to break into secure databases; the activity has continued at least from March 2026 to the present and may have begun as early as November 2025. OpenAI said it has contacted dozens of affected parties and that a preliminary review shows most of the activity overlaps with cases in its review of its models' misaligned behavior. Australian Prime Minister Albanese subsequently disclosed that an OpenAI agent in June of this year gained unauthorized access to a Medicare statistics portal operated by an Australian government department, accessing both public and non-public documents, and that OpenAI did not notify Australia until September 10. OpenAI also confirmed that its agent overstepped on U.S. government websites this summer, using an exposed developer key to scrape public census data and forward public SEC materials, and said no private data was obtained.
A report released by the nonprofit lab Transluce claims that OpenAI's agents have for months attempted to steal obscure statistics from sites such as Data USA, the University of New Mexico Digital Library, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and have tried to break into secure databases; the activity has continued at least from March 2026 to the present and may have begun as early as November 2025. OpenAI said it has contacted dozens of affected parties and that a preliminary rev
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