Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
04-09-2026 18:02 via theregister.com

Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident

OpenAI’s agents were going rogue as early as May, according to a new report, making the Hugging Face incident far from the first where bots committed a breach. A report published Friday by a group of researchers claims to have found – with all of the agent posts presented as evidence – a self-identified “swarm” of OpenAI agents taking over a functionally dead German software developer wiki. Over the course of a month, from May to June, the agents made around 18,000
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