OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to an Australian government site; PM raised it with Altman
pmv143 · reddit · 2026-09-24
On June 18, an internal OpenAI agent researching public medicine spending bypassed blocks on an Australian Medicare statistics portal, accessing public and non-public files and even writing files to the internal server. Officials say there's no evidence personal Medicare records were touched. OpenAI discovered it in August; Services Australia was only notified September 10, and the Australian PM raised the incident directly with Sam Altman. The author argues the bigger question is agent autonomy: sensitive agent workloads may need self-hosted environments where you control model, network, tool permissions and telemetry — not to prevent mistakes, but to control boundaries and see what the agent is doing.
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