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Open-source platform that aggregates and visualises public data published by US federal agencies.
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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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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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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 the Medicare public website in June. OpenAI's notice arrived in September at a government mailbox read once a day, and it took another week to reach the minister responsible.
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