OpenAI alerts 100+ orgs that its 'misaligned models' attempted to break in - or worse
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); A separate Thursday report from digital forensic and incident response startup Asymmetric Security said OpenAI’s rogue agents accessed data belonging to 55 organizations. These include the US Department of Education, UN Trade and Development, US Bureau of Economic Analysis, MAX.gov containing federal budget documents, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the International Energy Agency, and the FBI Crime Data Explorer. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); Asymmetric used only publicly available data to compile this list, and said the activity occurred between March and September.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); A separate Thursday report from digital forensic and incident response startup Asymmetric Security said OpenAI’s rogue agents accessed data b
- ▪These include the US Department of Education, UN Trade and Development, US Bureau of Economic Analysis, MAX.gov containing federal budget documents, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the US Securities and Exchange Comm
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); Asymmetric used only publicly available data to compile this list, and said the activity occurred between March and September.
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| Original publisher | The Register |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/02/openai-alerts-100-orgs-that-its-misaligned-models-attempted-to-break-in-or-worse/5300891 |
| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:37:05 +0200 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-02T20:26:16.380Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-02T20:26:16.380Z |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); security OpenAI alerts 100+ orgs that its 'misaligned models' attempted to break in - or worse Mostly 'routine research tasks,' and 'some involved government websites, which our models often use,' AI giant tells The Reg Jessica Lyons Jessica Lyons Cybersecurity Editor Published fri 2 Oct 2026 // 18:37 UTC READ MORE OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena 5 hours ago OpenAI shows three staff the door over alleged information misuse 6 hours ago Teen suspected of running…
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