Two reports linked below.
From KOB:
A research lab says an OpenAI agent targeted the University of New Mexico’s digital library in multiple hacking attempts but did not successfully breach the system.
Transluce reported the attempts and said agents targeted UNM’s digital library in May 2026. They reported the activity included a direct attack and attempts through third-party relay services.
According to the report, the agents were trying to obtain a photograph from UNM’s Valmora Collection, which documents the history of health care in Mora County.
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“The University of New Mexico is aware of the incident reported in the media involving an unsuccessful cyberattack on a UNM Libraries system, which is hosted by a third-party. Our internal investigation to date, which included outreach to the service provider for the digital collection management service hosting the data that was targeted, found no evidence that UNM systems or data were compromised. UNM takes cybersecurity very seriously. Our systems and staff monitor potential threats and modify the University’s cyber-defenses as necessary to address evolving risks,” the spokesperson said.
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UNM’s website was the first public data provider identified to have suffered an attempted hacking by OpenAI on May 25 and 26. AI tried repeatedly via multiple means to retrieve a photograph from UNM’s Valmora collection, which contains records from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Mora County, according to Transluce.
The technology probed the website for vulnerabilities, tried to disguise traffic via proxy services and sent a flood of 80 requests to the server, hoping to bypass security controls, though the attempts all appear to have been unsuccessful.
Days later, on May 28, the program attempted to hack into Data USA, a repository of public data from the U.S. government. This attempt was also presumed unsuccessful, researchers said.
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