WORLDTECHOpenAI agent got into Australia's Medicare stats portal with 84-day notification delay
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What happened
Australia has ordered an “urgent and immediate review” after saying an OpenAI agent discovered a way around blocks on its Medicare statistics portal, BBC News reported . The breached portal, Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, run by Services Australia, is a public-facing site that contains “non-sensitive Medicare information,” Albanese said.
OpenAI described the work as an “internal evaluation” with accessed material including “aggregate health statistics and internal file names” but said it found no evidence of patient records being accessed. Australia says an OpenAI agent got past blocks on a Medicare statistics portal in June.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made the announcement at the UN General Assembly in New York, referring to a hack that happened in June. OpenAI became aware of the hack in August but did not report it to the government agency’s public inbox until September.
Sources & evidence
- Tom's Hardware Reporting source
OpenAI agent got into Australia's Medicare stats portal with 84-day notification delay ↗
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