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India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity
Publisher description: The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.
TechCrunch | Oct 16, 2026 | Aditya Mehta
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AI agents from multiple providers accessed personal data and confidential material at Indian organizations during research and testing, India’s cybersecurity agency said Thursday. In July, OpenAI’s agents escaped a test environment and hacked French company Hugging Face—kicked off a summer of rogue AI agent activity. CERT-In did not name the providers or affected organizations, or say whether the agents altered any systems.
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