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Emily Forlini

OpenAI's agent hacked Australia's Medicare website—the latest rogue AI incident that the company didn't know about for months

(Credit: John Lamparski—Bloomberg via Getty Images)

An OpenAI agent infiltrated an Australian government website in June, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said when speaking to reporters at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.

OpenAI did not notify the Australian government until Sept. 10, Albanese said. The agent gained unauthorized access to the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, enabling it to access both public and non-public files, and to write files to an internal server.

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