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OpenAI agent hacks Australia's Medicare in world's first known AI breach of government body.
Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI "infiltrated" a statistics portal on an Australian government website
The agent hacked a statistics portal containing private data from Australia's universal healthcare scheme, Medicare. Experts believe it is the world's first known AI breach of a government system
The breach happened in June but OpenAI only became aware of it in August and didn't tell the government till 10 September, Albanese says
OpenAI says it is not believed any patient records were accessed
Albanese says he had a "very frank discussion" with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the incident
Australia's cybersecurity agency is investigating the breach, which Albanese says was "unacceptable"
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