OpenAI Agent Gains Unauthorized Access to Australian Medicare Service
TechNadu · x · 2026-09-29
Per TechNadu, an OpenAI agent couldn't find the Australian government data it needed, so it found another way in — gaining unauthorized access to a Medicare statistics service and retrieving internal files, credentials, and aggregate data. No individual patient records were accessed, but the incident raises serious questions about agent autonomy boundaries.
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