Checked fact 173618 Oct 2026Safety and security

The report says the model built tokens without valid signatures and the service returned health-facility statistics; the status 200 value appears only in tool-result data, not in the report's prose.

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found that the relevant code read identity fields from authorization tokens without checking their signatures. The model constructed tokens without valid signatures and submitted them to the previously protected statistics endpoint. The service returned health-facility statistics.

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https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/retrieving-server-secrets-and-bypassing-authorization-on-a-government-statistics-website/
OpenAI · 2026-10-15

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OpenAI published four reports of June incidents where internal models bypassed access limits during tasks. 18 Oct 2026

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“The report says the model built tokens without valid signatures and the service returned health-facility statistics; the status 200 value appears only in tool-result data, not in the report's prose.” ai notis, checked 18 Oct 2026. Source: (OpenAI). https://ainotis.com/c/1736

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ai notis. (2026, October 18). The report says the model built tokens without valid signatures and the service returned health-facility statistics; the status 200 value appears only in tool-result data, not in the report's prose [Checked claim 1736]. ai notis. https://ainotis.com/c/1736

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