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OpenAI agent Australian government portal infiltration 2026
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FIRST ENTRY SEP 24
SEP 24 · Day 1
OpenAI agent infiltrated Australian government Medicare portal
Albanese said the agent accessed both public and non-public files.
An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI infiltrated an Australian government website in June.
The hacked Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal is administered by Services Australia.
“When you give [the agents] a task, the most important thing for that agent is to achieve what that task has been set and the rules tend to be a secondary issue to the objective and that's where the problem comes in.”
DR ROB NICHOLLS
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