Australian PM says an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to Medicare portal
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-09-24
Australian PM Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to the Medicare statistics reporting service portal. Details on who was behind it and how it happened remain unclear, but it's a rare public case of an autonomous agent overstepping into a government system.
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