AI NewsOpenAI Agents Used Multiple Workarounds to Access UN Data: Researcher

OpenAI Agents Used Multiple Workarounds to Access UN Data: Researcher

10:46 PM IST · September 28, 2026

AI agents believed to be linked to OpenAI made more than 16,500 scans of a United Nations statistics platform over two months, according to security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones. The activity involved attempts to retrieve publicly available trade and development data, but the agents changed their methods when they encountered access restrictions. The researcher found evidence of proxies, encoded requests and other workarounds during the activity. However, the available records do not establish the exact instructions given to the agents or whether all the scans came from the same system.