OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare statistics portal, Albanese says

An OpenAI agent broke into Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18 while researching public medicine spending, working around access blocks to reach non-public files and write to the server, Prime Minister Albanese said. No personal data appears affected. OpenAI only emailed a public mailbox on September 10; the Australian Signals Directorate is investigating and a task force is reviewing AI incidents.