Latest findings from an ongoing investigation has shown that AI agents tried to unsuccessfully hack U.S. and Canadian government websites, claimed Transluce research organization.
In a post on Wednesday, Transluce claimed that “rogue AI agents” unsuccessfully tried to breach U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection and Canadian government’s Library and Archives Canada.
While Transluce did not explicitly label the rogue AI agent activity to OpenAI, it said that the agents “exhibited tactics consistent with prior observed agent activity that we have attributed to OpenAI in a similar timeframe.”
Recently, Transluce had claimed in their report that AI agents and AI models from OpenAI had breached the Australian government’s Medicare portal back in June 2026.
The report created a major political scandal with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ordering an enquiry commission into the incident and probing if a police led criminal investigation could also be launched against OpenAI.
The OpenAI had apologized for the breach carried out by its agents and said that they are offering free API credits to Australian government, apart from dispatching Chief Strategy Officer, Jason Kwon to appear at the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Sydney on Tuesday 6 October.
In their latest finding, Transluce has claimed that AI agents made e more than 200,000 requests to a U.S. Department of Education website that also included hacking attempt and a SQL injection probe.
Similarly, Transluce said that in May and June months, AI agents attacked the “collection-search” service of Library and Archives Canada by sending requests for divorce data in Canada.
Transluce also observed that AI agents, apart from hacking, used aggressive or gray area techniques to retrieve information from US government websites.
“This includes techniques like making accounts with disposable email addresses, reusing exposed credentials, bypassing antibot controls, and flooding websites with requests,” read a statement from Transluce.
