# OpenAI's AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data

> Source: <https://the-decoder.com/openais-ai-agents-exploited-a-google-security-education-game-to-scrape-un-trade-data/>
> Published: 2026-09-28 16:56:06+00:00

OpenAI's AI agents hit the UNCTAD statistics API roughly 16,500 times, creatively working around access restrictions. One method involved misusing a Google web security learning game as a relay to bypass their own constraints. The agents just kept going, adding to a growing list of cases that show how hard it is to keep agentic AI systems in check.

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