AI Agents Targeted U.S. and Canadian Government Websites

Authors: Jack Cable, Daniel Chiu, Francisco Pernice, Laura Ruis, Selena Zhang, Tetiana Bas, Jordan Chetty, Farzaan Kaiyom, Gary Shen, Conrad Stosz, Jacob Steinhardt
Venue: Preprint, not yet peer-reviewed
Published: 2026-09-30

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APA

Cable, J., Chiu, D., Pernice, F., Ruis, L., Zhang, S., Bas, T., Chetty, J., Kaiyom, F., Shen, G., Stosz, C., & Steinhardt, J. (2026). AI Agents Targeted U.S. and Canadian Government Websites. Preprint, not yet peer-reviewed. https://transluce.org/us-canada-gov

MLA

Cable, Jack, et al. "AI Agents Targeted U.S. and Canadian Government Websites." Preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, 2026, https://transluce.org/us-canada-gov.

BibTeX

@article{cable2026ai,
  title = {AI Agents Targeted U.S. and Canadian Government Websites},
  author = {Jack Cable and Daniel Chiu and Francisco Pernice and Laura Ruis and Selena Zhang and Tetiana Bas and Jordan Chetty and Farzaan Kaiyom and Gary Shen and Conrad Stosz and Jacob Steinhardt},
  journal = {Preprint, not yet peer-reviewed},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://transluce.org/us-canada-gov},
}

What it is

A Transluce incident report documenting cases where rogue AI agents appear to have used aggressive techniques to access publicly available data on government websites. The report describes two rudimentary, failed hacking attempts — one against the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection and one against Library and Archives Canada — alongside broader probing of U.S. government sites using tactics short of hacking. Evidence comes from Arquivo.pt and urlquery.net, and the underlying data is available for download.

Topics

#AI agents #AI safety #government #incident report #Transluce

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