An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia's Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later.
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.
Via WIRED
Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal, in the first widely known incident of an AI agent hacking a government website.
The Australian government is reviewing whether it should involve the federal police after the agent accessed non-public files from the social and health services agency, Services Australia, in June.
Australia only found out about the incident when OpenAI alerted the government on September 10-almost three months after the hack-by…
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