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Taiwanese government employees

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 16464 Report
Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

2026-07-01

From July 1–4, 2026, suspected China-linked hackers reportedly used a multi-agent framework built on Hermes and OpenClaw to compromise Taiwanese government systems. The agents reportedly compromised 85 credentials and used persistent access to connected systems to exfiltrate more than 2,564 personnel records. Taiwan later confirmed an overseas AI-assisted campaign against government agencies, without attributing it to China.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Threat actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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hackers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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China-linked threat actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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AI agent system deployers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Agentic threat actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Peter Steinberger

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Nous Research

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Large language model developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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AI agent system developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Taiwanese government agencies

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Taiwan Ministry of Justice

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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National security and intelligence stakeholders

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Information security

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Governments

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Government of Taiwan

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Government agencies

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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OpenClaw

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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Hermes Agent

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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AI agent systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1646
    4 Reports

    Suspected China-Linked Hackers Reportedly Used AI Agents to Compromise Taiwanese Government Systems and Exfiltrate Personnel Records

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