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TechCrunch · · Medium severity
The incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia's prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable.
IT Security Guru · · Medium severity
An autonomous AI agent built by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to non-public files on an Australian government Medicare portal in June, but Canberra was only told about it in September, in what is being described as the first known...
The Record by Recorded Future · · Medium severity
An OpenAI agent gained “unauthorized access” to “non-public files” from an Australian government health website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
Hacker News · · Medium severity
Silicon Republic · · Medium severity
'Our models took actions we did not intend,' an OpenAI spokesperson said. Read more: OpenAI takes weeks to tell Australia about Medicare breach
The Verge · · Medium severity
Sam Altman attends a UN Security Council meeting on AI. | Getty Images OpenAI's artificial intelligence agents hacked an Australian government website and attempted to breach numerous other government and university websites. The attack...
Wired · · Medium severity
The country's prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.
TechRadar · · Medium severity
'This situation is obviously unacceptable': OpenAI agent allegedly hacks Australian government healthcare website
Infosecurity Magazine · · Medium severity
Australian PM Anthony Albanese criticized OpenAI’s response to the incident, which occurred in June 2026
Silicon Republic · · Medium severity
'Our models took actions we did not intend,' an OpenAI spokesperson said. Read more: OpenAI takes months to tell Australia about Medicare breach
Engadget · · Medium severity
Researchers and the Prime Minister of Australia have revealed more instances of OpenAI's agents going rogue.
IT Pro · · Medium severity
Nicole Kobie first started writing for ITPro in 2007. As a freelance journalist covering technology and business, Nicole's work includes bylines in New Scientist, Wired, PC Pro and many more. Nicole the author of a book about the...
BleepingComputer · · Medium severity
OpenAI agents targeted public data providers in multiple countries, probing some for vulnerabilities and exploiting a security weakness in an Australian government portal while performing information-retrieval tasks as part of a...
The Hacker News ·
An AI agent on an internal OpenAI research task bypassed access controls on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. The portal publishes aggregate figures, such as spending, and...
Tech-Economic Times · · Medium severity
Australian PM Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI agent breached a government health website in July, accessing non-public Medicare data. Australia has launched an inquiry into the incident, including OpenAI’s delayed disclosure and how the...
Latest InfoTech News, IT, Information Technology News | The HinduBusinessLine · · Medium severity
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed the hack while in New York to advocate for tighter international regulation of AI systems at the United Nations.
Hacker News · · Medium severity
Inc42 Media ·
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned the United Nations Security Council that increasingly powerful AI systems could pose risks to humanity if their development and deployment are not managed properly. Altman and...
TNW ·
The Australian government website, which contains information on Medicare, the country’s public health scheme, was broken into by an AI agent operated by OpenAI, the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, said on Wednesday. Albanese gave a...
Medianama · · Medium severity
An OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18 , read public and non-public files and wrote files to the internal server, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in New...
Latest InfoTech News, IT, Information Technology News | The HinduBusinessLine · · Medium severity
Albanese said that the incident involved Australia's Medicare statistics portal and occurred in June
Slashdot · · Medium severity
OpenAI's artificial intelligence "went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents," the New York Times reported Wednesday, "hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do...
Tech-Economic Times · · Medium severity
Albanese made the breach public following a telephone conversation with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman. Both men are currently in New York City to address the United Nations.
AppleInsider ·
It was already known that the ChatGPT deal went so poorly with Apple that OpenAI considered a lawsuit, but these complaints have finally been put to paper in a SpaceXAI lawsuit filing. The Siri extension for ChatGPT didn't perform as...
OpenAI News ·
ChatGPT Ads is expanding to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, giving eligible businesses new ways to reach people across more than 60 countries.
Tech-Economic Times ·
Technology investor SoftBank Group has issued a total of $11.1 billion in dollar- and euro-denominated bonds, a filing showed on Thursday, as it looks to generate cash to continue its investments in artificial intelligence.
Tech-Economic Times · · High severity
Australia said on Thursday an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorised access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website.
The Register ·
If you've ever wondered whether a generative AI model can drive a car, wonder no more: It can be done, at great expense and very slowly, so long as it can maintain an internet connection. A trio of computer scientists has been putting...
Tech-Economic Times ·
ChatGPT maker OpenAI asked a Texas federal judge to throw out an antitrust lawsuit brought by Elon Musk's AI startup xAI before trial, arguing that
Hacker News · · Medium severity
TelecomLead ·
Today’s telecom news includes announcements on FirstLight, Netcracker, Verizon, IBM, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI, Airtel Africa, among others. IHS telecom towers FirstLight Taps Netcracker to Speed Fiber Expansion U.S. fiber...
The Register ·
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed an OpenAI agent “infiltrated an Australian government website.” Albanese said the incident occurred in June and involved an agent gaining unauthorized access to a portal that...
MacRumors ·
OpenAI saw disappointing results working with Apple to integrate ChatGPT in Siri , according to court documents filed [ PDF ] in its ongoing legal fight with Elon Musk's company SpaceXAI (xAI at the time the lawsuit was filed). Apple...
9to5Mac ·
As reported by The Financial Times , new court filings show that OpenAI was disappointed by the adoption of ChatGPT through Apple Intelligence, which it says “dramatically underperformed” after launching in 2024.
Computerworld ·
OpenAI published a detailed list of priorities and principles on Tuesday designed to govern its third-party model assessors, a list that industry observers agreed was a good one. But they also stressed that it lacked any enforceable...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
OpenAI published a detailed list of priorities and principles on Tuesday designed to govern its third-party model assessors, a list that industry observers agreed was a good one. But they also stressed that it lacked any enforceable...
Gizmodo · · Medium severity
OpenAI agents breached the Australian government's healthcare statistics portal back in June.
SmartCompany · · Medium severity
The incident took place on June 18, but it took until September 10 for OpenAI to inform the federal government. The post OpenAI agent hacked Medicare website, says PM appeared first on SmartCompany .
TNW ·
Most companies that struggle with enterprise AI are not waiting for better models, OpenAI’s head of forward deployed engineering said on Wednesday. In about 80% of cases, Colin Jarvis said, the problem is deployment. Companies do not...
Hacker News · · High severity
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