OpenAI agent hacks Australia's health service, gov't finds out months later

an openai agent conducted internet-based research into health statistics in a development project by an internal openai research team. when it couldn't access certain information, the agent attempted alternative ways and gained unauthorized access to australia's health statistics portal in june. australia's government found out about the incident on september 10, almost three months later, when openai alerted them via email to a public mailbox. prime minister anthony albanese expressed disappointment with the notification process and stated there will be legal consequences. australia is investigating if openai broke the law and is establishing a task force to look at the incident and emerging ai cyber threats.