{"id":916772,"date":"2026-10-01T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916772\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:30:10","slug":"ai-agents-tried-to-hack-library-and-archives-canada-website-research-firm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916772\/","title":{"rendered":"AI agents tried to hack Library and Archives Canada website, research firm says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>AI agents tried to hack into a Canadian government website, an artificial intelligence research firm said Wednesday, casting the effort as a failed hacking attempt, while Canada said there were no indications its systems were compromised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/transluce.org\/us-canada-gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AI research firm Transluce said<\/a> the attempts exhibited tactics &#8220;consistent with prior observed agent activity that we have attributed to OpenAI in a similar timeframe.&#8221; But it added it was not confidently attributing these attempts to OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>The agents attempted to access Library and Archives Canada on May 28 and June 9, <a href=\"https:\/\/transluce.org\/us-canada-gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transluce said in a blog post<\/a>. 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Governments around the world have struggled to keep pace with rapid advances in AI.<\/p>\n<p>Free online service arquivo.pt, the national Portuguese web archive that is operated by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, captured 899 requests hitting the &#8220;collection-search&#8221; service of the Library and Archives Canada, including a series of apparently failed rudimentary hacking attempts, on May 28 and June 9, Transluce said.<\/p>\n<p>Several recent breaches globally by rogue AI agents have alarmed governments and companies.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Australia said an OpenAI agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/openai-agent-hacked-government-website-australia-9.7356351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">breached a government health data portal<\/a> in June, gaining unauthorized access to files, in \u200bwhat was the first known instance of an AI agent hacking into a government website.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI apologized on Tuesday for the hack by the rogue AI agent.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-916772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}