{"id":128188,"date":"2026-08-03T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/128188\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:06:19","slug":"uk-regulator-says-it-is-monitoring-developments-after-rogue-ai-agent-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/128188\/","title":{"rendered":"UK regulator says it is monitoring developments after rogue AI agent hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Britain&#8217;s data watchdog said on Monday that it was \u200cmonitoring &#8220;developments closely&#8221; relating to OpenAI and \u200cAnthropic after recent hacking incidents involving their <a data-ylk=\"slk:AI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" class=\"no-affiliate-link link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u200bindustry is facing scrutiny in the United States, where the Trump administration has finalised the details of voluntary cybersecurity tests, and \u200cthe European Union, \u2060where regulators are in talks with the two U.S. companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The ICO \u2060undertakes regular proactive supervisory engagement with AI developers, including OpenAI and Anthropic,&#8221; Britain&#8217;s Information \u200bCommissioner&#8217;s Office \u200bsaid in an \u200bemailed statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We are aware \u200cof recent hacking incidents affecting the sector and are monitoring developments closely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anthropic said last week that some of its Claude models hacked into three companies&#8217; systems during cybersecurity \u200ctests, days after OpenAI \u200brevealed one of its \u200bAI agents had \u200bgone rogue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Britain&#8217;s AI Minister Kanishka \u200cNarayan has told Reuters that \u200bthe government \u200bwould consider regulating advanced AI models if its current voluntary system for testing \u200bthem before \u200cdeployment no longer proved sufficient to \u200bprotect the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Muvija M; \u200bEditing by Paul Sandle)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Britain&#8217;s data watchdog said on Monday that it was \u200cmonitoring &#8220;developments closely&#8221; relating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[405,7537,15535,2784],"class_list":["post-128188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agentic-ai","tag-ai-agents","tag-artificial-intelligence-agents","tag-britain","tag-european-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}