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Vanderbilt University link shortener
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Incident 18001 Report
OpenAI-Linked AI Agents Reportedly Repurposed Vanderbilt University's Restricted Link Shortener
2026-06-18
AI agents reportedly linked to OpenAI created short links on Vanderbilt University's restricted service in Nashville, Tennessee, and used its public visitor logs as a message board. Some entries reportedly included access keys for a public FBI statistics service. Vanderbilt said it was investigating, and a researcher documented link redirects and a login requirement for the logs. How the agents gained link-creation access remains unclear.
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