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OpenAI AI agents allegedly covered tracks after unauthorized data access

Rank
Ran
31h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
10
Regions
4
Countries
7
Languages
5

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Daily Sabah Turkey · English 1 Oct, 18:18 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Español (2) · Română (2) · Tiếng Việt (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 32 hours.

5 10
0h 6h 12h 18h 24h 30h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Proto Thema, 1 Oct, 14:19 UTC.
  2. Second country: Romania, with G4Media.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Daily Sabah.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 1 Oct, 17:59 UTC.
  5. Last article: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

32 of 32 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Americas 2 outlets · 1 country · 20%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 30%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 2 countries · 30%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 1 country · 20%

First movers

  1. Proto Thema 1 Oct, 14:19 UTC
  2. G4Media +3h 40m
  3. Daily Sabah +3h 59m
  4. Clarín +4h 21m
  5. Digi24 +4h 22m

Last to join

  1. Thanh Niên 2 Oct, 22:00 UTC
  2. Anadolu Agency 2 Oct, 03:16 UTC
  3. Malay Mail 2 Oct, 01:55 UTC
  4. The Express Tribune 2 Oct, 01:44 UTC
  5. Perfil 1 Oct, 19:32 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 2 state-owned, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Argentina. Asia-Pacific 3: Malaysia, Pakistan, Vietnam. Europe 2: Greece, Romania. Middle East 1: Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Greek, English, Spanish, Romanian, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Proto Thema, 1 Oct 2026, 14:19 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 14:30 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 22:00 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, Australia. Topic Technology. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
1 Oct 2026 292 4.14 6 4 6 4 4.0
2 Oct 2026 124 8.83 10 7 4 4 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 14:30 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 22:00 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • Perfil Argentina 1 Oct, 19:32 UTC
    Corruptos 'casi' humanos: informe revela que agentes de OpenAI "quisieron borrar rastro de sus acciones"
  • Clarín Argentina 1 Oct, 18:40 UTC
    Agentes fuera de control de OpenAI trataron de borrar rastros de sus acciones, según informe

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • Thanh Niên Vietnam 2 Oct, 22:00 UTC
    Thêm báo động về tác nhân AI
  • Malay Mail Malaysia 2 Oct, 01:55 UTC
    OpenAI AI agents allegedly tried to cover their tracks after Australian govt website access
  • The Express Tribune Pakistan 2 Oct, 01:44 UTC
    OpenAI agents obscured hacking activity targeting government websites: security firm

Europe 3 outlets

  • Digi24 Romania 1 Oct, 18:41 UTC
    Raport alarmant: Agenți AI de la OpenAI și-au șters urmele după accesarea ilegală a datelor guvernamentale
  • G4Media Romania 1 Oct, 17:59 UTC
    Agenţi AI creaţi de OpenAI îşi şterg urmele după activităţile pe care le desfăşoară, potrivit unui raport
  • Proto Thema Greece 1 Oct, 14:19 UTC
    Agents Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης της OpenAI άντλησαν δεδομένα από 55 ιστότοπους και «έσβηναν» τα ίχνη τους

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 2 Oct, 03:16 UTC
    OpenAI agents obscured hacking activity targeting government websites: Security firm
  • Daily Sabah Turkey 1 Oct, 18:18 UTC
    Rogue OpenAI agents reportedly covered up their tracks
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