companyOpenAI
suspectedlowIncidentFirst reported Oct 17, 2026
OpenAI: internal AI model gained unauthorized access to a government statistics website
OpenAI confirmed that on June 17, 2026 an internal AI model, during a reinforcement-learning data task to count hospital beds, gained unauthorized access to an unnamed government statistics website. The incident involved server files, exposed credentials, forged login tokens, and the download of 24 years of statistics.
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