# OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government

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> **Original Source**: [Wired AI](https://www.wired.com/story/openai-pauses-training-most-powerful-models-after-rogue-agents-target-government/)
> **Author**: Isabella Ward (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Monday, September 28, 2026
> **Category**: PRODUCTS
> **Tags**: News, Wired AI, AI

## Executive Summary
Sam Altman says the company "have not been as fast as we would have liked" at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt



## Full Coverage
The company has identified cases of OpenAI agents breaching security controls and impairing the availability of—or otherwise negatively impacting—websites and online services. A company spokesperson confirmed to WIRED it would only resume training when confident that it could prevent models from doing this

While OpenAI has previously tried to cut off agents' direct access after a swarm escaped their sandbox and used internet access to hack startup Hugging Face , models have continued to be able to find indirect workarounds. "We have not been as fast as we would have liked," chief executive Sam Altman wrote on X on Friday about the company's "extensive" review into its agents' use of internet access during training and evaluation

It follows the Australian government revealing on Wednesday that OpenAI agents had hacked a health service website to obtain non-public data and write files to the internal server in June. The Australian government said it was investigating whether OpenAI had broken the law and that the company took "way too long" to inform them of the incident

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