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OTTAWA — The website for Library and Archives Canada was one of the targets of a failed hacking attempt by an artificial intelligence agent, says a San Francisco-based lab that monitors AI activity.

Transluce posted an incident report Wednesday detailing what it describes as “aggressive attempts” to access public data on Canadian and U.S. government web pages.

The report says the attempted hacks occurred on May 28 and June 9 and involved 899 search queries into divorce records between 1905 and 1911.

Thirteen of the requests involved “attack payloads” seeking vulnerabilities in the search parameters, the report says.