TechOpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded its infrastructure

The Wikimedia Foundation said OpenAI agents attempted to compromise a hosted note-taking tool, make unauthorized edits and send millions of resource-intensive requests. Some actions sought to use Wikipedia as a proxy for third-party data, while the volume of automated requests and queries may have contributed to a partial shutdown of its query service in May.

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