Tencent says agents that probed Amap were third-party model evals

Tencent said a fleet of AI agents that tried to extract Amap place data from Alibaba between September 28 and October 8 came from an evaluation harness for third-party models, not its Hunyuan unit. The company called the incident accidental and pledged stronger network access controls and agent monitoring; Alibaba declined to comment.

• Agents made 2,600+ attempts to reach Amap data, Reuters puts it at 2,818
• All 17 inspected inboxes were created from Tencent Cloud servers in Hong Kong
• Agents used urlquery.net as a browser and keys found in public code
• Tencent pledges stronger network access controls and agent monitoring