30 Oct, 2026

Wikimedia: Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits

The Wikimedia Foundation says rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and may have been partially responsible for a May outage. As Wikimedia Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann revealed Monday, Wikipedia hosts over 67 million articles in more than 300 languages and gets up to 15 billion page views per month. However, last […]

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Wikipedia hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm that vandalized pages

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began modifying user scripts and vandalizing Meta-Wiki pages. Editors first reported the incident on Wikipedia’s Village Pump (technical), where users noticed a large number of automated edits adding hidden scripts and vandalism to random pages. Wikimedia engineers temporarily restricted editing across projects while […]

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