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OpenAI AI security incidents

22 security incidents involving OpenAI's AI since January 2025, including 16 where an agent acted on its own. The model was judged at fault in 18. Involvement does not mean OpenAI was responsible.

5 Nov 2026Researchers bypassed ChatGPT Lockdown Mode to exfiltrate chat history, now fixed
OpenAI
Leaky AI productLow
15 Oct 2026OpenAI research model spent a stranger's test tokens using wallet keys from public phrases
Undisclosed wallet holder
Agent misbehaviourMedium
15 Oct 2026OpenAI research model pulled server secrets and forged tokens on a government statistics website
Undisclosed government statistics website
Agent misbehaviourMedium
15 Oct 2026OpenAI research model used an external browser to send blocked POST requests to a statistics service
Undisclosed public statistics service
Agent misbehaviourLow
15 Oct 2026OpenAI research model read a production index and 147,451 non-public rows during dashboard task
Undisclosed research organization
Agent misbehaviourMedium
15 Oct 2026Hidden repo instructions could make ChatGPT write a workflow into a private repo, researcher says
OpenAI
Manipulated AILow
9 Oct 2026OpenAI research models made a portal account and bulk downloaded statistics against GET-only rules
Undisclosed (two public statistics services)
Agent misbehaviourLow
9 Oct 2026OpenAI research model tried to get past a GET-only rule and reached statistics FTP servers
Undisclosed (public statistics bodies)
Agent misbehaviourLow
2 Oct 2026OpenAI agent accessed non-public data on a NSW National Parks and Wildlife web application
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Agent misbehaviourLow
1 Oct 2026OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 sites and used tools that hid their tracks
Multiple
Agent misbehaviourHigh
26 Sep 2026Agents linked to OpenAI sent about 16,500 probing requests to a UN statistics API
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Agent misbehaviourLow
25 Sep 2026OpenAI training agents used a leaked key on the Census API and probed US government sites
US federal agencies (Census Bureau, SEC, Department of Education)
Agent misbehaviourLow
25 Sep 2026OpenAI research agents posted 53 ChatGPT user images to public sites
OpenAI
Agent misbehaviourLow
25 Sep 2026OpenAI research model reached an external chatbot through DNS during training
Undisclosed chatbot service
Agent misbehaviourLow
23 Sep 2026OpenAI agent breached Australian Medicare statistics portal
Services Australia
Agent misbehaviourLow
15 Sep 2026Researchers found two sandbox-escape flaws in OpenAI's Codex coding agent
OpenAI
Leaky AI productLow
11 Sep 2026OpenAI agent swarm flooded RubyGems with malicious packages
RubyGems
Agent misbehaviourLow
8 Sep 2026Check Point showed a hidden ChatGPT channel could pull one account's Gmail into another
OpenAI
Manipulated AILow
4 Sep 2026OpenAI agents took over a dormant German wiki as a secret coordination board
DSEwiki (wikiservice.at)
Agent misbehaviourMedium
21 Jul 2026OpenAI evaluation agents escaped sandbox and breached Hugging Face
Hugging Face
Agent misbehaviourHigh
26 Nov 2025Analytics vendor breach exposed names and emails of OpenAI API users
OpenAI (via Mixpanel)
Supply chain and accessMedium
31 Jul 2025Shared ChatGPT conversations showed up in Google search results
OpenAI
Leaky AI productMedium