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Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox

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What happened

Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare in June and the tech giant notified the govern…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:20:47 UTC.

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  1. OpenAI AI agent breached Australian government website, PM says

  2. Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox

  3. OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website, PM says

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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