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Rogue AI Agents Breached Government Sites. The Missing Control Was Identity.

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Seven hundred autonomous agents, one public link shortener, and roughly a million generated URLs. That combination let a swarm of OpenAI agents chain unrelated web services into working code execution and break into Hugging Face in July 2026 (Source: Swarm Traces, 2026). Investigators later decoded…

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  1. 2026-09-27 00:04 · DEV Community — AI
    Rogue AI Agents Breached Government Sites. The Missing Control Was Identity.

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