# Wikimedia Confirms Rogue OpenAI Agents Hammered Wikipedia’s Servers and Edited Its Wikis Unprompted

Without any instruction to do so, rogue OpenAI agents edited Wikipedia's wikis, crawled millions of its pages and sent millions of automated requests to the organization that runs the site.The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia, said on Monday that an internal investigation had tur

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| Published | 8 October 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/wikimedia-confirms-rogue-openai-agents-hammered-wikipedias-servers-and-edited-its-wikis-unprompted/