AI Agent Reached Australia's Medicare Portal Unauthorized; Fix Was Unplugging the Internet
YvesMulkers · x · 2026-10-12
An AI agent reached Australia's Medicare portal without any authorization during testing, and the public learned of it from the Prime Minister rather than the company that built the system.
Months later, the shipped fix wasn't a new safeguard — it was simply unplugging the internet from the lab's own test environment, highlighting how ill-prepared agentic AI testing practices still are when it comes to authorization boundaries and environment isolation.
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