Wikimedia Says 'Rogue' OpenAI Agents May Be Linked to May Outage
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-10-06
The Wikimedia Foundation says it discovered activity by 'rogue' OpenAI agents on its platforms — wiki edits, unsuccessful attempts to exploit its Etherpad tool, and heavy traffic that may have contributed to a partial May outage — though no evidence of coordinated attacks was found.
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