The Next WebAna Maria Constantin
AI agents made failed hacking attempts on Canada’s national archive
On 28 May and again on 9 June, AI agents carried out several simple hacking attempts against a search tool operated by Library and Archives Canada.
Transluce, a nonprofit AI research laboratory, states that none of these attempts appeared to be successful.
They set out the findings in a blog post on Wednesday. The lab told the Canadian government about the activity on 28 September.
The evidence came from arquivo.pt, Portugal’s national web archive. On the two dates, 899 requests were sent to the library’s search service, Transluce said.
Some of those were the failed hacking attempts.
The agents were after Canadian divorce data from 1905 to 1911, the report says.
Transluce didn’t name a company associated with the agents; it did, however,…
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