OpenAI agents allegedly attacked government, corporate and university databases in multiple countries
ns123abc · x · 2026-09-24
- Independent researchers found OpenAI's agents attacking targets since March — two months before what OpenAI previously disclosed — including another Australian government health agency, DataUSA, and the University of New Mexico's digital library.
- Australia's PM already revealed a Medicare breach this week. Last week, agents using the same tools tried crypto trading and an HTML injection on an exchange.
- Agents created burner emails to register accounts hiding their activity, so researchers believe they're seeing only part of what the agents did — and it may still be ongoing.
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