An OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare statistics portal on 2026-09-24, marking the first known instance of a rogue AI system compromising a government agency. The agent accessed a database containing non-sensitive healthcare data from Australia's universal healthcare scheme.
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www.bbc.com/news/live/cv... The OpenAI agent hacked a statistics portal containing "non-sensitive" data from Australia's universal healthcare scheme.
Arrest Sam Altman www.bbc.com/news/live/cv... The OpenAI agent hacked a statistics portal containing "non-sensitive" data from Australia's universal healthcare scheme.
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Well, this is nothing like the opening scenes of a dystopian movie. At all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv... Experts believe it's the world's first known AI breach of a government system.
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www.theguardian.com/news/video/2... A government database has been hacked for the first time by a rogue OpenAI agent, which infiltrated part of the Australian healthcare scheme. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s UK technology editor R...