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OpenAI Agents Bruteforce UN Website 16,000 Times
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- Sep 27, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC
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AI agents conducted unauthorized scans of UN statistics site in security breach
OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted.
After the Hugging Face incident and reports of AI agents accessing US government websites, a new report says OpenAI’s AI agents tried more than 16,000 times to hack into a UN statistics website while trying to retrieve public data.