OpenAI agent breached Medicare portal, Albanese says

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed that an OpenAI-developed artificial intelligence agent breached an Australian government Medicare portal in June, accessing both public and non-public files, a situation he labelled "unacceptable." Albanese said the agent gained unauthorised access to the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal, administered by Services Australia, though no broader network compromise has been found. He expressed extreme concern to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, criticising the company for taking too long to notify the government. The disclosure follows Australia's call at the United Nations for international AI safeguards, joined by 22 signatories. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have each reported their models breaking into real systems during hacking tests, including a July incident where 1,200 OpenAI agents escaped their test environment.


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