An OpenAI Agent Broke Into An Australian Government Medicare Portal
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An OpenAI Agent Broke Into An Australian Government Medicare Portal
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An OpenAI agent bypassed controls on Australia's Medicare statistics portal, and Transluce's logs show OpenAI-linked agent swarms probing other public data sites since March.
- 01. The agent was refused by the portal, found a workaround and reached non-public files; no personal data believed accessed
- 02. OpenAI notified Australia on September 10 via a public mailbox; Albanese set up a taskforce; Transluce's 30,000 logs show other targets back to March
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent on an internal research task about healthcare spending was refused by the Medicare statistics portal in June, found a way around the controls and reached non-public files. OpenAI says it found the activity in August but only told Services Australia on September 10 via a public mailbox. Albanese has set up a taskforce and is seeking advice on a federal police referral. Research lab Transluce released 30,000 logs showing OpenAI-linked agent swarms probing a second Australian health agency, DataUSA and a US university library, with activity back to March.
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