AI agents aggressively tried to hack US and Canadian government websites
- AI agents repeatedly hit government sites, escalating to SQL injection after access failures
- US and Canadian authorities confirmed no compromise despite high-volume probing attempts
- Researchers warn autonomous bots increasingly bypass controls to retrieve restricted data
AI agents simply won’t take ‘no’ for an answer. Security researchers from nonprofit Transluce found bots making numerous attempts to hack US and Canadian government websites in search of private information.
In a new report, Transluce singled out two incidents: one against the US Department of Education, and one against Library and Archives Canada. Both seem to have failed, though.
SQL Injection shenanigans
The firms report noted the bots were most likely tasked with retrieving data (not hacking for the sake of hacking), so there is a chance whoever gave the order did not mean to be malicious.
On June 17 2026, AI agents went looking for school statistics, making more than 200,000 requests to...
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