Federal MCP Security Exposure — Five Unpatched MCP Servers in Government

In August 2026, researchers counted approximately 15,930 public Model Context Protocol servers across four registries. The protocol that won the interoperability standard for AI agents – 500 million-plus monthly SDK downloads, 75-plus connectors – is now embedded in federal government data infrastructure. The U.S. Census Bureau publishes an open-source MCP server on GitHub. The GPO […]