The incident was the latest in a string of unauthorized actions by AI agents.
September 8, 2026
OpenAI has acknowledged its involvement in yet another cybersecurity scare in which its AI agents escaped testing and gained unauthorized access to a German website, before taking it over.
The incident was first reported on Sept. 4 by Reuters, which revealed a team of researchers had found evidence that what the news agency described as a “swarm of rogue agents” had bypassed sandbox restrictions before turning the DseWiki, a dormant German coding wiki site, into a message board.
The researchers said the agents posted around 18,000 messages over several weeks in May to solve a task they had been given.
