# Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage > Source: > Published: 2026-10-05 19:05:19+00:00 # Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage By Jay PetersSource: [The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com) Following many [recent disclosures](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1000644/irregular-rogue-ai-cyberattacks-hacking-openai-meta-anthropic-google) about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some activity" by "rogue" [OpenAI](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/openai) agents on Wikimedia platforms. The activity includes edits to Wikimedia wikis, "unsuccessful attempts" to "exploit" the Etherpad note-taking tool that the Wikimedia Foundation hosts, and heavy traffic that the foundation says "may" have contributed to a partial outage that happened in May, [according to a blog post](https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/). However, the Wikimedia Foundation says it didn't find evidence that its systems were "used for coordinat … Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.