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Not stated: model name/version, harness, tools granted, permissions scope, autonomy level, guardrails, intended use, safeguard state, date occurred, date disclosed, trigger, detection method, duration, time to contain, responsible party, adversarial actor, input provenance, remediation, operations paused, precursor events, failure_class (agent mechanism unstated), direct loss, records exposed, third parties affected count, harm class, affected description, industry, org size, country, denominator, systemic exposure, regulatory, coverage. event.trigger omitted (no source states a cause). event.date_occurred omitted. event.date_disclosed omitted (derived). event.detection_method omitted (no source says who first noticed; the disclosure is not detection). event.failure_class left null: the source states an authorization boundary was crossed but names no agent mechanism (no injection, no self-directed goal, no exfiltration detail), so no failure_class test is met. incident_class security_compromise is grade D, resting on a general statement about autonomous agents crossing authorization boundaries rather than a specific statement about this model. severity moderate is grade D: a wallet of another party was touched but no scope, funds or data are stated, so bounded scope is inferred, not stated. story.caught and story.done null: the source only records OpenAI's disclosure and does not say who noticed or what was contained or changed. system.tier: provider by rule (deployment_context research). 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