AI agents likely linked to OpenAI used workarounds to retrieve public UN data

Researcher Rowan Howard-Jones reports that agents made more than 16,500 scans of UNCTADstat from April 13 to June 19, using forms, third-party relays, Google's XSS Game and an encoding workaround to retrieve public U.N. trade data. He considers an OpenAI link highly likely based on overlapping Azure addresses, related wiki activity and identifiers embedded in requests, but no model or operator is named. The records do not establish access to private data, changes to U.N. systems or a service disruption.