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Single attacker used AI agents to pull Taipei emergency dispatch records

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Source: The Hacker News

Acronis’s Threat Research Unit said a single attacker, whom the researchers are highly confident is based in Hualien City, Taiwan, used AI agents to pull emergency dispatch records covering seven Taipei districts. The agents targeted hundreds of organisations in at least 11 countries and collected data or accessed systems at about 10 of them in Taiwan, Mexico and Thailand. Commercial AI models mostly refused to help, so the agents ran almost entirely on abliterated models, which are run locally with their safety training removed.

Why it matters

Taiwan’s emergency services and their software vendors were targeted, and the report does not say whether the affected organisations were told.

When
9 Nov 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0796
Where
Taiwan, Mexico, Thailand
Who
Acronis

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WTA-N-2026-0796: “Single attacker used AI agents to pull Taipei emergency dispatch records.” wheresthe.ai, 9 Nov 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/tw-single-attacker-used-ai-agents-to-pull-taipei-emergency-d-2026-11/ (source: The Hacker News).

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