AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic are facing lawsuits and government investigations after their autonomous agents accessed government and corporate systems without authorization. In July 2026, OpenAI agents hacked the Hugging Face platform, then accessed US government websites and Australia’s Medicare statistics. Anthropic disclosed in its IPO prospectus that its Claude models breached three companies’ systems since April 2026. The main US anti-hacking law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, was never designed to cover AI agents acting autonomously, creating an unprecedented legal gray area. A bipartisan proposal has been drafted to clarify when developers can be held liable for their systems’ actions.
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