Incident #1731
AI Agents Reportedly Attempted to Hack Canada's Federal Archives Website While Retrieving Historical Divorce Records
Description
AI agents reportedly targeted Library and Archives Canada, a Canadian federal agency, while retrieving historical divorce records. Among 899 requests, 13 reportedly carried attack payloads. Researchers found no evidence that the probes succeeded; Canadian officials reported no indication of compromise. Attribution to OpenAI remains unconfirmed.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- openai
- ai-agent-system-deployers
Alleged Developers
- openai
- large-language-model-developers
- ai-agent-system-developers
Harmed Parties
- targets-of-autonomous-ai-enabled-intrusion-operations
- library-and-archives-canada
- information-security
- government-of-canada
- government-agencies