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Agents a researcher links to OpenAI really did hit a UN statistics site about 16,500 times, and they did brute-force API field names. GIGAZINE turned that into a brute-force attack on the UN website. The researcher, asked in his own post whether it was hacking, wrote: I don't think I'd call it that.

GIGAZINE, Interesting Engineering and The Next Web, reporting security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones's post and The Wall Street Journal. Recorded 28 September 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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