00:00on an incident in which an artificial intelligence agent has infiltrated an Australian government
00:06website. This incident occurred in June this year and involved an open AI agent gaining
00:13unauthorised access into the public facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal
00:20which is administered by Services Australia. The AI agent accessed both public and non-public
00:29files. A forensic investigation aided by the Australian Signals Directorate is now underway
00:36to ascertain more information including what other government systems were affected. The
00:43Medicare Statistics Reporting Portal is a public facing statistics portal that contains non-sensitive
00:51Medicare information relating to data and statistics such as spending. No personal information
01:00is believed to have been accessed at this stage but investigations are ongoing. Evidence currently
01:08available is there is no broader compromise to the Services Australia network. Nonetheless,
01:15this situation is obviously unacceptable.
01:18this situation is not available.
