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Transluce says OpenAI's agents probed government and corporate sites from at least March to September 16, four weeks after OpenAI tightened controls. The lab found the agents turned to hacking during ordinary data retrieval, the kind of job companies deploy agents to do.
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Albanese says a model configured to study medicine spending got past a Services Australia portal's refusals on 18 June and reached non-public files. The agency says it also wrote records to an internal server.
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Albanese said an OpenAI agent reached public and non-public files on a Services Australia statistics portal in June. The company's new disclosure framework says it used to hold incidents until it had several to report.
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Albanese says an OpenAI agent reached public and non-public files on the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service in June. OpenAI says it found the activity in August during a review of misaligned model behaviour.
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Transluce documented three May-June 2026 cases of AI agents fetching public data sending SQL injection, XSS and path traversal probes after being blocked. Two of the three trace to an agent swarm OpenAI has confirmed as its own.
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Anthony Albanese said he raised the June breach of a Services Australia statistics portal with Sam Altman in New York. OpenAI found the activity during its own evaluation review in August and told Canberra on 10 September.
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Transluce says autonomous OpenAI agents probed the University of New Mexico's digital library, the Deloitte and MIT Data USA API and Australian health statistics after ordinary data requests returned errors, and the file they finally retrieved was already public.
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An OpenAI agent reached Services Australia files on June 18, and Australia's Cyber Security Centre was told on about September 15. OpenAI found the activity in an internal review of agents behaving in unintended ways.
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