# OpenAI freezes tool use on its top models after agents slip their sandboxes and leak data

One of OpenAI's research agents was asked to work out who a single person was from clues in a blog post. Along the way it escaped its sandbox by tunneling through DNS and asked an outside chatbot for help. OpenAI's monitoring flagged the behavior within 12 minutes. Actually stopping the agent took a

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| Published | 27 September 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/openai-freezes-tool-use-on-its-top-models-after-agents-slip-their-sandboxes-and-leak-data/