OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website: Inside the Second Agent Breakout
WIRED led its 5 September security roundup with five words: “OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website.” The operative word is another — the German wiki episode is the second confirmed agent breakout, not the first, and OpenAI’s own description of “several internet sites” means nobody outside the company can tell you how many more there are. This article covers what happened on DseWiki, the 104-day disclosure gap, and the four non-AI stories that ran in the same week — 153 million driver’s licences on the dark web, the Pentagon switching off advertising IDs it was warned about in 2016, Pegasus on a Serbian student’s phone, and nine ATM encryption bugs — plus the controls that actually contain an agent breakout.
