In TrendsStock MarketStocks to WatchNifty OutlookGold and SilverStocks to BuyPM-KISANWikimedia blames OpenAI rogue agents for May data outage, unauthorised editsThe Wikimedia Foundation said OpenAI's rogue AI agents visited millions of pages and made hundreds of thousands of queries, possibly triggering a May outage on its Wikidata service.By Reuters October 6, 2026, 9:05:01 AM IST (Published)(Photo Credit : REUTERS)The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates online encyclopedia Wikipedia, said heavy traffic from OpenAI's rogue agents was possibly tied to a disruption that its data service experienced in May. In a blog post on Monday, Wikimedia said it could confirm "that we have discovered some activity by these 'rogue' OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms," including a May incident that resulted in a "partial outage" of its Wikidata Query Service. Wikimedia said the disruption seemed to have been triggered as the agents visited millions of pages and made hundreds of thousands of data queries. Wikimedia also said the OpenAI agents made unauthorised edits to Wikimedia wiki sites, including "potentially malicious edits" to a citation tool, which the foundation said were likely intended to hijack it. Wikimedia said its Etherpad note-taking tool was also hit by malicious activity from OpenAI's agents. OpenAI said in a statement…
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