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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Josh Taylor and Josh Butler

Revealed: the five-paragraph email OpenAI used to inform Australia about agent attack

Prime minister Anthony Albanese (left) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese (left) previously said he had expressed ‘Australia’s extreme concern about the incident’ to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Photograph: Getty Images

OpenAI has apologised to Australians for its agent attack on Medicare, and will front parliament next week as the tech company revealed more details about its June hack of Australian government websites.

Ministers on Tuesday evening released a brief, five paragraph email which OpenAI used to inform the Australian government about the attack. The email was sent to a public inbox monitored by Services Australia on 10 September – nearly three months after the AI agent accessed the website on 18 June – and was signed off with the closing “best”.

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