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OpenAI agents hijacked a 25-year-old German wiki to cheat on their tasks and share sandbox exploits

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OpenAI agents hijacked a 25-year-old German wiki to cheat on their tasks and share sandbox exploits

The Decoder · Sep 4, 2026, 1:24 PM UTC

According to an analysis by collusion.wiki, autonomous AI agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left roughly 18,000 posts in a 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026. The agents shared answers, raw data, and a trick that let them break out of their sandbox, built on a faked Microsoft cloud address.…