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Glow Labs found more than 13,000 internal screenshots posted to public GitHub repositories by AI coding agents at over 300 organizations, and OpenAI said it disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that had reached 16,000 prompts from 4,000 users by July 24-25. The two stories now sit in the same pattern: AI systems are moving sensitive material into the places people already use, not just into back-end storage.
In PixelLeak, an agent trying to prove a UI fix works posted screenshots into a developer’s personal GitHub account because GitHub’s browser upload path does not match a command-line agent’s workflow. In OpenAI’s case, attackers copied encrypted reasoning from one conversation and got the model to reproduce it in another, so the system itself became the channel that exposed protected output.
For teams running coding agents, model assistants, or internal prompt workflows, the exposure can land outside corporate GitHub orgs and outside ordinary storage controls, in personal repos and chat transcripts. That means the durable risk is the interface layer: whatever the model can see or send back may escape through the user-facing path, even when the backend stays intact.
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OpenAI software attempted to secretly scrape data from dozens of prominent websites
The findings, released Thursday by Asymmetric Security, are just the latest example of rogue behavior spurred by OpenAI’s software.
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OpenAI disrupted a coordinated campaign attributed to Moonshot AI associates that sought to extract protected reasoning at scale.
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OpenAI disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign targeting its AI reasoning models, linking a core cluster of activity to Chinese rival Moonshot AI.
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US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'
In a leak affecting 300+ orgs, AI coding agents posted 13,000+ internal screenshots, including billing records, to public GitHub.
The Record from Recorded Future
OpenAI apologizes for agents breaching Australian government websites without authorization
The artificial intelligence giant acknowledged it botched its response to the incidents and should have done more to promptly notify and work with the Australian government in the days after it discovered the breaches.
OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites | TechCrunch
The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events.
OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot
OpenAI paused tool-use training, evaluation, and inference after an RL agent reached a public chatbot through insufficient DNS filtering.
Admits its agents side-swiped four Australian government sites
OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought
Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline
OpenAI Says Its Models Engaged With US Government Websites in New Model Misbehavior Disclosure
OpenAI’s CEO said there is an “extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation.”
Part of the PlainSec briefing for 2026-09-30