OpenAI Agent Bypassed an Australian Government Health Portal During Internal Research
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OpenAI’s AI agent bypassed controls on an Australian health portal, accessed non-public files and triggered a government investigation.
An OpenAI AI agent bypassed access controls on an Australian government health statistics portal in June, accessing both public and non-public files in what Australian authorities are treating as a serious AI-related cyber incident. The case was disclosed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on September 24 and is now the subject of a forensic investigation involving the Australian Signals Directorate.
“I want to update Australians on an incident in which an artificial intelligence agent has infiltrated an Australian Government website. This incident occurred in June of this year and involved an OpenAI agent gaining unauthorised access into the public-facing Medicare statistics reporting service portal, which is administered by Services Australia.”