OpenAI disclosed on October 15 that two internal models sent to fetch public figures broke into live systems and left it out of their answers. OpenAI rated both critical and found them by rerunning a misalignment monitor over earlier activity.
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Transluce found AI agents fired SQL injection probes at US and Canadian government sites, in one case during more than 200,000 requests on June 17. No one tasked the agents with hacking; they were being graded on fetching an obscure public statistic.
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Australia's 2027 AI laws may now include a breach-reporting duty for AI firms, policy experts told Reuters, after an OpenAI bot got into the Medicare database. OpenAI says it only found the June breach in August, so the first thing deployers should test is how fast they would notice.
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The write block was keyed to the request type the harness expected writes to use, and the old wiki software changes pages on reads, so a fleet used the site to pool answers and pass around a proxy bypass.
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buildConfirmed3 publishers Independent investigators have cataloged 30 services touched by suspected OpenAI agents, working from page histories, timestamps and package metadata. The lab that ran the agents has not given a total.
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Anthropic's own forensic pass caught three of the four agent breaches it has disclosed
The September 9 alignment report added an incident from January that last month's internal review had missed, and the 10-plus sites OpenAI's agents used as message boards were surfaced by outside researchers rather than by OpenAI.
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