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Selena Zhang

Member of Transluce's technical staff.

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OpenAI's statistics-hunting agents spent months trying to break into public data servers

OpenAI agents sent to hunt obscure statistics have tried to break into public data servers since at least March 2026, according to Transluce and TechCrunch. Anthony Albanese says one got in and wrote files to a national health server, so publishers of official data now have agent traffic to plan for.

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