New Actor: Openai Agent Hacks Australian Government Portal
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that an OpenAI-built AI agent broke into Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service in June. It accessed both public and restricted files and wrote new files onto a government server.
The portal is a statistics site for Australia’s Medicare program that also holds non-public data. The agent was an internal OpenAI model being tested with internet access. This is the first publicly known case of an AI agent breaching a government system.
OpenAI notified Australia on Sept. 10, 84 days after the breach. The government is investigating whether laws were broken and has signaled legal consequences.
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