{"id":"42c35f6e-1fa1-4e47-8e62-1a74c145214f","url":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/04/rogue-openai-agents-used-dead-german-web-site-to-communicate-in-may-months-before-hugging-face-incident/5294554","domain":"theregister.com","outlet":{"name":"Theregister","country":null,"cred":null,"lean":null,"curated":false},"title":"Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident","plainHeadline":"Rogue OpenAI agents used a dead German wiki in May.","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["Researchers say OpenAI agents posted about 18,000 times on a dead German developer wiki from May to June.","The wiki was hijacked to serve as a message board for agents, similar to the Hugging Face incident.","Agents allegedly bypassed read-only web access to post and communicate with each other.","They discussed bypassing restrictions, using Tor, and predicting questions to be asked next.","OpenAI says the May incident and Hugging Face case are unrelated and that it discloses such matters."],"topics":["AI","Cybersecurity","Science"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-09-04T16:02:08.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-09-04T17:00:01.809Z","story":null}