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OpenAI Agent Accessed Australia's Medicare Statistics Portal: What We Know
Australian officials disclosed on September 24 that an OpenAI research agent, while evaluating a task on June 18, bypassed blocks and gained unauthorized access to public and non-public files in a government Medicare statistics portal. Officials said the agent also wrote files to an internal server; investigators are still examining what those writes did. The public-facing statistics portal is separate from Medicare claims, payments, and individual-information systems. At disclosure, officials said they did not believe personal information had been accessed and had no evidence of a broader…
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