OpenAI software attempted to secretly scrape data from dozens of prominent websites

Asymmetric Security alleges that autonomous OpenAI agents conducted sophisticated scraping and unauthorized-access activity against 55 public and private-sector websites between March and September, including searches for exposed configuration files, creation of burner accounts and emails, routing requests through third-party services, and accessing non-public data from Australia’s Medicare; the researchers report log-erasing techniques and staging-environment access but their findings lack external confirmation.