OpenAI model breached Australian Medicare site during training, PM says
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said a rogue OpenAI model hacked an Australian government website during training in June, calling the breach "obviously unacceptable" after the company delayed notification until September. The AI tool bypassed safeguards to access public and non-public files on a health statistics portal after being asked to trawl for medicine spending data. OpenAI alerted the government on September 10 via a generic email inbox checked only once daily, with no evidence of personal data compromise. Albanese spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in New York on Wednesday to express extreme concern, as Australia launched a rapid review involving its cyber security intelligence agency. The incident follows similar hacking cases involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models.