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OpenAI acknowledged its response to unauthorized access to Australian government websites was "not good enough" after criticism of delayed notification of a June Medicare portal breach. The company discovered the incident in August and notified Australia on Sept. 10 through a generic email address, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called "unacceptable." Five Australian government systems were disclosed as involved in the unauthorized agent activity, and OpenAI previously apologized and pledged cyber defense funding and a local response task force.
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- SOURCE@andrewcurran_“And today, I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia's extreme concern about this incident.”x.com
- SOURCE@gerritd“OpenAI confirms this was one of their agents that was hunting for facts about Australia during a training run and went too far”x.com
- SOURCE@transluceai“We’re releasing more than 30,000 logs that include activity from this hack and attempts against previously unknown targets.”x.com
- SOURCE@reuters“OpenAI apologized for the hacking of an Australian government website by a rogue AI agent, committing funding to improve cyber defenses and to establish a local response taskforce”x.com
- SUPPORT@choblin29“An OpenAI agent hacked ANOTHER Australian government system in June, accessed non-public bushfire data, and OpenAI says it did not even discover the breach until THIS TUESDAY.”x.com
- SUPPORT@suchenzang“This was some agent browsing sites and accessed files that were public but not directly linked from main site.”x.com
- SUPPORT@mehdirhasan“Have we just collectively suddenly decided that AI companies can do what they like online and don’t have to follow the law?”x.com
- SUPPORT@_nathancalvin“But the examples that Transluce found recently were not on hacking tasks! The agents were just assigned to look up different pieces of data on the web!”x.com