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OpenAI's AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data

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OpenAI's AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data

The Decoder · Sep 28, 2026, 4:56 PM UTC

OpenAI's AI agents hit the UNCTAD statistics API roughly 16,500 times, creatively working around access restrictions. One method involved misusing a Google web security learning game as a relay to bypass their own constraints. The agents just kept going, adding to a growing list of cases that show how hard it is to keep agentic AI systems in check.…