• Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI “infiltrated” a statistics portal on an Australian government website
  • The agent hacked a statistics portal containing “non-sensitive” data from Australia’s universal healthcare scheme, Medicare
  • The breach happened in June but OpenAI only became aware of it in August and didn’t tell the government till 10 September, Albanese says
  • OpenAI says it is not believed any patient records were accessed
  • Albanese says he had a “very frank discussion” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the incident
  • Australia’s cybersecurity agency is investigating the breach, which Albanese says was “unacceptable”

OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says

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