OpenAI's AI agent breached Australian Medicare portal, Canberra says
X-Risk Daily
Thursday 24 September 2026
Transformative AI
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has disclosed that an AI agent built on OpenAI's technology breached a government Medicare portal in what officials describe as the first known case of an AI agent hacking a government network.
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