Services Australia failed to promptly report a security breach that allowed OpenAI to hack into a government database because it was sent to an email staff did not monitor closely.
Announcing a new taskforce to probe the breach, Government Services Minister Katy Gallagher said the delay in notifying authorities would form part of a "forensic investigation" of the hack, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles said the AI agent had, without authorisation, "climbed the fence" to access a database that sat behind a public-facing website, which held aggregated Medicare data used by academic researchers, after hitting a roadblock while the model was being trained.
