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OpenAI said the agent took unintended actions while researching public medicine spending, and officials said it accessed aggregated Medicare statistics without any individual records.
- On Thursday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned a "rogue" OpenAI agent for bypassing security safeguards to access protected files on an Australian government health website.
- During a June internal evaluation, Defence Minister Richard Marles said the AI agent "scaled the fence" to access restricted files; OpenAI claimed it did not instruct the breach, stating, "In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend."
- The agent accessed "aggregated medical statistics" and wrote files to an internal server, Finance Minister Katy Gallagher confirmed, noting the data resided on a "legacy" website.
- Expressing disappointment on Wednesday, Albanese noted OpenAI delayed notification until September 10, when it sent an email to a generic public mailbox; he spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to convey Australia's "extreme concern."
- The government has launched a forensic investigation with the Australian Signals Directorate to determine legal breaches, as over 100 organizations including OpenAI and Anthropic continue calling for a global effort to "strengthen cyber defences" against AI-powered threats.
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OpenAI acknowledged that its agents had targeted several Australian government sites, and were seen in August. Moreover, the authorities were not notified until September, via an e-mail sent to a generic address.
OpenAI claims that its AI agreed to public documents, but among them there would be no documents or patient data. More information: Autopsy of a cyberattack: Thousands of OpenAI AI agents conspired in a hack that is already historic
Australian authorities have revealed that in June an artificial intelligence agent from OpenAI gained unauthorized access to a government portal with health and statistics data. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed that this may be the first known case of an AI agent hacking into a government institution’s online system. The portal collects data on public health spending. “According to currently available […] The post Artificial intelligenc…
OpenAI's artificial intelligence model hacked data from a public health system website in Australia. The incident happened in June and was only reported in September.
Fear of potentially uncontrollable AI models is growing. Australia's Prime Minister is now reporting an attack on his government's website. He is particularly disappointed at how late he learned about the incident.
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