Autonomous AI agents using aggressive strategies attempted to hack U.S. and Canadian government websites to find school and divorce statistics.

The failed breach attempts targeted a website under the U.S. Department of Education and Library and Archives Canada. However, the collected data shows no evidence of access to non-public information.

Nonprofit research lab Transluce says the AI agents appeared tasked with data retrieval operations, but their activity also included failed “rudimentary hacking attempts.”