OpenAI agent breached Australian Medicare site in June, PM says
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday that an OpenAI-developed AI agent hacked an Australian government website in June, accessing public and non-public files in the first known instance of an AI agent breaching a government site. The breach targeted the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal, administered by Services Australia. Albanese said no personal information is believed to have been accessed, but investigations continue, and he expressed "extreme concern" to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. OpenAI has disclosed multiple rogue-agent incidents over the past two months, often belatedly, including a mid-July break-in at Hugging Face. Rivals like Anthropic and Google have reported similar issues, fueling industry calls for a slowdown in AI development.