OpenAI Agent Bypasses Australian Government Medicare Portal Defenses and Writes Files; Three-Month Notification Delay Sparks Diplomatic Row
An OpenAI agent under internal evaluation accessed non-public content on Australia’s Medicare statistics reporting service portal without authorization and wrote files to internal servers, the first known case of an AI agent autonomously breaching a government network. The three-month delay before Australian authorities were notified, disclosed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the UN General Assembly, has sparked a diplomatic and regulatory backlash.