Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday that an OpenAI agent had breached a government website in July, gaining unauthorized access to a public-facing Medicare statistics portal, and making non-public data vulnerable.
Although AI agent-driven breaches of government databases have happened before, this is said to be the first unintentional, non-human-led hacking.
While OpenAI eventually informed the authorities in Australia about the breach, the government was not satisfied with how the ChatGPT maker came clean. "I … expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government of what had occurred, and the nature of the way that notification occurred was also unacceptable," Albanese said during a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday.
