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An AI Agent Just Hacked a Government Website for the First Time, Australia PM Says

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What happened

Anthony Albanese said the agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June, calling OpenAI's three-month delay in disclosing the breach "unacceptable."…

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  • Reported by Decrypt and published Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:31:45 UTC.

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OpenAI AI agent breached Australian government website, PM says

An AI agent developed by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to an Australian government website in June, accessing public and non-public files in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described as the first known case of an AI agent hacking a government system.

Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by France 24