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The Economic Times
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Explained: How OpenAI breached a government website in Australia and what happens next

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.

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