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.
“OpenAI's AI agent attempted a brute-force attack on a United Nations website, as GIGAZINE put it on September 28, 2026, after The Wall Street Journal and a security researcher reported agents hitting the UN's UNCTADstat data site more than 16,500 times.”
GIGAZINE, Interesting Engineering and The Next Web, reporting security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones's post and The Wall Street Journal, 28 September 2026
Recorded 28 September 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.
Alex Stamos, a cybersecurity lecturer at Stanford University, told the Journal the activity came close to hacking but was mostly very aggressive data gathering.
While Jones did not describe the actions of the AI agent he discovered as 'hacking,' he did express concern about actions that circumvent data acquisition restrictions.
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