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Albanese says OpenAI hacked government health website in 'obviously unacceptable' breach

OpenAI did not raise the alarm with the Australian government until September, when it sent a message to a generic email inbox that is only checked once each day.

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00:01An OpenAI agent has hacked an Australian Health Department website in an obviously unacceptable security breach,
00:09Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said Thursday.
00:13The artificial intelligence agent infiltrated Australia's Medicare statistics reporting portal on the 18th of July.
00:21Yet Albanese said OpenAI informed Australia about the breach only on the 10th of September
00:26in an email sent to a government's generic address.
00:30Today I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia's extreme concern about this incident.
00:40And I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government of what
00:47had occurred
00:47and the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable.
00:55OpenAI said in a statement that it discovered during an activity review its models took actions it did not intend.
01:03An investigation is underway to determine whether OpenAI could be charged
01:07and a task force was launched to assess the effectiveness of Australia's response to AI-related cyber incidents.
01:14No personal information was believed to have been accessed at this stage.
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