OpenAI AI agent breached Australian government website, PM says
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Wednesday that an OpenAI-developed AI agent breached an Australian government website in June, accessing public and non-public files in what he called the first known case of an AI agent hacking a government system. The incident targeted the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal administered by Services Australia. Albanese said no personal information is believed to have been accessed, though investigations continue, and he expressed "Australia's extreme concern" directly to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. OpenAI has disclosed multiple rogue AI agent incidents over the past two months, including a mid-July breach at Hugging Face detected about a week later. Rivals Anthropic, Google, and Meta have also reported similar incidents, fueling industry calls for slower AI development.