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Australia says OpenAI's rogue AI hacked a government website, and the company took months to report it

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What we know so far: AI agents going rogue and breaching other companies' systems is bad enough, but Australia says this trend has taken a worrying turn. An OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a government Medicare statistics portal in June, prompting an investigation into whether other systems were affected. Making matters worse, authorities weren't notified until September.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the June 18 incident involved a portal administered by Services Australia. The agent was researching public medicine spending during an internal OpenAI evaluation when it encountered access restrictions and circumvented them.

There's some reassuring news: this wasn't a raid on Australians' individual medical histories. OpenAI says its review found no evidence of patient records being accessed, with the information including aggregate health statistics and internal file names, Reuters reports.

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