AI Agent Breaches Australian Government Website

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An artificial intelligence agent created by OpenAI accessed files on an Australian government website in June, according to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The agent infiltrated a statistics portal managed by Services Australia that contained healthcare data from Medicare, the country's universal health program. The information accessed included aggregate statistics and internal file names, though officials stated no personal patient records were compromised. The incident represents one of the first publicly documented cases of an AI system hacking a government website.