OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The publisher of Wikipedia said Monday that OpenAI agents attempted to hack a note-taking tool it hosts, made unauthorized edits, and sent millions of resource-intensive requests to its infrastructure, in the latest instance of OpenAI systems…
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Published3 h ago (Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:21:53 GMT)
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AuthorDan Goodin