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  ok thats next level: "an AI agent developed by OpenAI infiltrated an Australian government website in ​June, accessing public and non-public files in the first known instance of ‌an AI agent hacking a government website". holy. Via Reuters

  @kimmonismusX2h ago72▲view on X ↗
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  You don't express "extreme concern" dickhead, you prosecute him like you would any script kiddy under the cybercrime legislation you've been building for 30 years https://www. theguardian.com/australia-news /2026/sep/24/anthony-albanese-says-openai-agent-hacked-medicare-extreme-concern-sam-altman

  jimbob@aus.socialMastodon4h ago34▲view on Mastodon ↗
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  From the clues provided in the press release and a quick search, I wonder if the culprit website could have been at least associated with https://medicarestatistics.humanservices.gov.au which has seemingly been shutdown/redirected some time after 11 August 2026.[1] Source code of the archived website indicates SAS web application software being…

  dhxHacker News56m agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  This is potentially just semantics. In the chat line they raised the ethics of the behaviour and whether to let the humans know showing it was part of the decision tree before dismissing it and exploiting vulnerabilities they identified. The intent in mentioning this in the comment relates to my concerns about future risk of AI swarm behaviour and…

  beeeeeeeeeeeeeagler/australia3h agoview on r/australia ↗
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  New: Another OpenAI agent hacked the Australian government. — PM says he expressed his disappointment “that it took [OpenAI] way too long to inform the government what had occurred, and the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable.” —

  @raphae.liBluesky5h agoview on Bluesky ↗
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  There really needs to be a reckoning regarding this breach. But there won't be Anika Wells says it’s "highly concerning" OpenAI "didn’t feel obliged" to tell the Australian government about its AI agent’s hack for three months. # auspol # cybersecurity # medicare https://www. abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/fed…

  ahhhhhhhhhhh@mastodon.socialMastodon1h ago1▲view on Mastodon ↗
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  What's notable is:1. AFAICT, they don't state whether the flaw has been fixed.2. He said: "The government will establish a task force led by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to urgently examine the incident and determine whether existing processes are adequate for responding to AI-related cyber incidents."First, I don't know how…

  BeetleBHacker News3h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  Enough of this. These companies are raking in the cash and corporations are paying them eye watering amounts of money to automate away well paying jobs. We must stop pretending that it is somehow a scam. They are going to come for everything, in every sector, and they are going to do it with increasing recklessness and autonomy. It's time to treat…

  Macrobianr/australia3h agoview on r/australia ↗
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  Oh my god. OpenAI infiltrated private Australian Medicare files in JUNE and Prime Minister Albanese is just announcing it now.

  @youcaughtscott.comBluesky5h agoview on Bluesky ↗
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  Scoop: Chats left by OpenAI agents appear to show how they worked together to circumvent cybersecurity protections to get Australian government health data. They targeted an agency that the Prime Minister said was accessed during OpenAI's Medicare hack. https://www. abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/ope…

  camwilson@mastodon.socialMastodon1h ago1▲view on Mastodon ↗
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  If it was the Australian Medicare Statistics Reporting Service on June 18th it may have been part of this incident: https://collusion.wiki/ - the bulk of that coordinated activity was between 16th and 21st of June, and we know they were hitting UK government data sites.I had a dig around in the data that they published on that site and found…

  simonwHacker News3h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  How tf does a program (in this case an AI) go around by his own hacking companies and public infrastructures? If it was not deliberately used for that by their owners / hosters? We've learned earlier today that AI CEOs are threatening warning the UN of the danger of their creations Like wtf? Is this is part of a coordinated scheme to get more…

  Codex_Absurdumr/technology3h agoview on r/technology ↗
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  Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) Reuters 보도를 인용해, OpenAI가 개발한 AI 에이전트가 6월 호주 정부 웹사이트에 침투해 공개·비공개 파일에 접근했다는 주장을 전했다. 사실이라면 AI 에이전트의 자율적 보안 침해 및 공공기관 접근통제 문제를 보여주는 초기 사례로, 에이전트 권한 관리·샌드박싱·감사 로그의 중요성이 커질 수 있다. https:// x.com/kimmonismus/status/21029 17942933639442 # aiagents # cybersecurity # openai # government # agenticai

  sayzard@mastodon.sayzard.orgMastodon1h ago1▲view on Mastodon ↗
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  The fact the incident occurred in June and OpenAI only notified the Australian government on September 10 is a major issue. Hacking a nation-state's universal healthcare system is about as serious as it gets, yet OpenAI seem quite relaxed about the whole thing (presuming they have known about it for some time).

  gravelcHacker News4h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  Do you have any evidence around that? I read a few things that say the agent wrote some internal files - but that could just be an exposed FTP or something.

  goodgordr/technology3h agoview on r/technology ↗
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  "An OpenAI models accessed private Medicare data in June, but the company said it did not become aware of the activity until August during an ongoing review of the model’s activity. Services Australia was notified weeks later, on 10 September, after OpenAI says it spent the intervening time investigating how and what was accessed. OpenAI said its…

  janggolan@mastodon.socialMastodon3h agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  Beyond the breach, I think OAI deserves to answer: what and why did it access the information? Real people and their data are involved.It looks like the PM gave Sam Altman a "tsk tsk". It will be interesting to see whether someone else tries to impose more consequences.

  nxobjectHacker News4h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  And yet we need ai data centres in Australia. How about lobbying to Shut-down llm ai.

  ChildhoodFine8719r/australia3h agoview on r/australia ↗
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  “Richard Marles says # Australian authorities have made their displeasure about the time it took for # OpenAI to notify the government of the # Medicare breach known, including in a one-on-one meeting between Anthony Albanese and # SamAltman in New York last night.” There is a USA Trade war on “socialised medicinal care”, so is this a grey-hack…

  peterrenshaw@ioc.exchangeMastodon47m agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  > He said the agent had accessed files that were publicly available as well as material that was not intended for public access.“Not intended”. I’ll bet you whatever this was it wasn’t even secured, it was just hosted somewhere openly.

  Chance-DeviceHacker News4h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  An OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government website, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, with the artificial intelligence company taking three months to alert the government about the breach. https://www. japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/ 24/asia-pacific/openai-hacked-australian-government/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #…

  thejapantimes@mastodon.socialMastodon41m agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  This feels like a very credible opening to a modern-day Terminator reboot. Sometime over the Christmas-NYE week we will learning that NYSE and other exchanges have been compromised, as well as all public-facing utilities...

  bonsai_spoolHacker News4h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  https://www. theguardian.com/australia-news /2026/sep/24/anthony-albanese-says-openai-agent-hacked-medicare-extreme-concern-sam-altman Just to clarify this situation, it was *not the A.I. agent that hacked Medicare it was the owner of the device. People's private information has been stolen and Anthony is 'disappointed' leaving the door open to…

  Spoon@aus.socialMastodon35m agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  Didn't OpenAI just make a commitment to inform the public about their "accidents" going forward? Can't find this anywhere on their website despite them having known this for at least 14 days...

  TopfiHacker News4h agoview on Hacker News ↗