Was OpenAI's Agent Hack of Australia's Medicare Real? A Speculative Rebuttal Says No

max_paperclips · x · 2026-09-24

Sharing a long-form analysis that pushes back on claims that an OpenAI agent "hacked" Australia's Medicare site. The author stresses it is pure speculation—reconstructed from public news reporting plus Wayback Machine and Trove archives with no inside information—and argues the public evidence doesn't support calling it a real hack.

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