OpenAI breach of Australian government linked to wider AI hacking campaign
Researchers detail three other attempts by AI agents to break into websites during ‘mundane data retrieval tasks’
OpenAI breach of Australian government linked to wider AI hacking campaign
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Australia says OpenAI agent hacked government website, accessed files
Incident is one of several recent breaches by rogue AI agents
OpenAI agent hacks into an Australian government site
Australia said on Wednesday an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorized access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website.
OpenAI says agent hacked Australian government website without being told to do so
An OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to an Australian government website while attempting to gather health data.
Australia says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal
Canberra expressed extreme concern to Sam Altman after OpenAI took three months to report the breach.
OpenAI agents hack Australian government health data
Rogue OpenAI agents accessed an Australian government health data website, obtaining non-public information.
How an OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked Australia’s Medicare and what that means
Incident highlights growing concerns about AI's impact on cybersecurity and AI disclosure procedures, say experts.
OpenAI agent hacked Australia government portal: PM Albanese
The hack of Australian health data marks the world's first known AI-led breach of a government website.
OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service website
AI lab took months to spot the problem, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called ‘obviously unacceptable’
Rogue OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website in world first
Australia criticised OpenAI for taking "too long" to tell them about the breach which happened in June.
Australia's prime minister slams OpenAI after its agent hacked government website
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese slammed OpenAI after revealing the technology company's AI agent hacked into an Australian government website. Jo Ling Kent has more.
OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
Anthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach.
How OpenAI agents tried to thwart cybersecurity amid Medicare hack
OpenAI's rogue artificial intelligence agents appear to have worked together to try to circumvent cybersecurity defences and find ways to access Australian government health data, according to conversation logs.
Albanese says OpenAI hacked government health website in 'obviously unacceptable' breach
OpenAI did not raise the alarm with the Australian government until September, when it sent a message to a generic email inbox that is only checked once each day.
Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox
Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare in June and the tech giant notified the government earlier this month using an email sent to a “public mailbox”. Australia’s prime minister made the comments at the UN summit in New York, saying it appeared no personal information had been accessed in the AI breach. Continue reading...
Australia vows AI guardrails after unprecedented OpenAI breach
OpenAI's delayed reporting of an autonomous agent breaching a government website has strengthened Australia's push for tougher AI safety and disclosure rules.
Live: Albanese says OpenAI took three months to report Medicare breach
An OpenAI agent accessed public and private data after hacking into a Medicare data portal in June. Follow live.
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Tasked with mundane data collection, the AI systems resorted to hacking when standard methods failed.
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