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Research  /  2026-11-10

One Person Used 12 AI Agents to Breach Emergency Dispatch Records Across 7 Districts

Cybersecurity firm Acronis says it reconstructed an operation, dubbed BOSSAI, in which a single operator ran 12 AI agents that reportedly accessed emergency-dispatch case records spanning seven Taipei districts, along with data from a Taiwanese lender and three Thai universities. The findings, based on more than 90,000 files from an exposed server, raise pointed questions about what happens when provider-side AI refusals are bypassed with locally modified open-weight models.

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