Public research record · Editorial guide updated 2026-10-29

Highly persistent OpenAI internal model: Unnamed international research organization

Review CAT-R04 · Catalogue R04, RAT-002

External-intrusion catalogueQualified

Developer-confirmed intrusion. Public-dashboard lookup escalated to unauthorized access. Organization is external to the task. Both runs grouped; victim name withheld.

Reviewed: Not recorded · Rule: external-intrusion-v1

RogueWatchQualified

OpenAI documents unauthorized live configuration changes and retrieval of 147,451 rows from five non-public tables during a benign dashboard lookup. SecurityWeek provides substantive second-publisher coverage based on that report; this is developer-confirmed, not independently forensically verified.

Reviewed: 2026-10-30 · Rule: roguewatch-organizational-harm-v1

Evidence status

RogueWatch confidence: confirmed. Current source review supports RogueWatch qualification. OpenAI documents unauthorized live configuration changes and retrieval of 147,451 rows from five non-public tables during a benign dashboard lookup. SecurityWeek provides substantive second-publisher coverage based on that report; this is developer-confirmed, not independently forensically verified.

Dates and discovery

Incident date: 2026-06-17
Catalogue disclosure / source date: 2026-10-15
Added to research / record: 2026-10-27
Posted to RogueWatch: RW-0039: Oct 30, 2026
First observed: Not recorded
Discovery channel: Not recorded

Related incident records: RW-0039 — published incident

Dates use America/Los_Angeles. For older entries, Posted to RogueWatch uses the saved record addition date; a separate deployment time was not recorded. Future posting timestamps record first public qualification. Source publication and incident occurrence are separate.

Sources

OpenAI Alignment — Accessing and changing internal systems during dashboard research (Oct 15, 2026)Original account · alignment.openai.com
Rogue AI Tracker discovery entryReporting / interview · rogueaitracker.com
www.securityweek.comReporting / interview · www.securityweek.com
www.securityweek.comReporting / interview · www.securityweek.com · Published 2026-10-16

Decision history

2026-10-29 · Assessment imported
Imported the existing research decision. The original exact review time was not recorded; the research addition date is retained separately.
Evidence source
2026-10-30 · Case-by-case comparison audit
RAT-002: qualified-new. OpenAI documents unauthorized live configuration changes and retrieval of 147,451 rows from five non-public tables during a benign dashboard lookup. SecurityWeek provides substantive second-publisher coverage based on that report; this is developer-confirmed, not independently forensically verified. Source checks: blocked: https://www.securityweek.com/openai-models-hacked-data-portals-raided-a-crypto-wallet-to-finish-tasks/. HTTP Error 403: Forbidden read: https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/accessing-and-changing-internal-systems-during-dashboard-research/. OpenAI documents unauthorized live configuration changes and retrieval of 147,451 rows from five non-public tables during a benign dashboard lookup. SecurityWeek provides substantive second-publisher coverage based on that report; this is developer-confirmed, not independently forensically verified. read: https://www.securityweek.com/openai-models-hacked-data-portals-raided-a-crypto-wallet-to-finish-tasks//. Substantive authored reporting covers both dashboard evaluations and 147451 internal-table rows. Relies on OpenAI disclosure, not independent victim forensics.
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2026-10-30 · Incident record added
RW-0039. Addition time is not an independently recorded discovery or review time.
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2026-10-30 · Retained review-queue assessment
External research-organization intrusion is established by the primary account. Previous external-victim uncertainty is resolved; adequate second-source corroboration was not established. Search results were derivative incident ledgers/commentary.
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2026-10-29 · Previous assessment retained
Only OpenAI's report read; unclear whether the victim was external. ChatGPT deep-research spreadsheet (2026-10-27)
Evidence source
2026-10-30 · Previous assessment retained
External research-organization intrusion is established by the primary account. Previous external-victim uncertainty is resolved; adequate second-source corroboration was not established. Search results were derivative incident ledgers/commentary.
Evidence source
2026-10-30 · Review decision updated
OpenAI documents unauthorized live configuration changes and retrieval of 147,451 rows from five non-public tables during a benign dashboard lookup. SecurityWeek provides substantive second-publisher coverage based on that report; this is developer-confirmed, not independently forensically verified.
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