An autonomous AI agent built by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to non-public files on an Australian government Medicare portal in June, but Canberra was only told about it in September, in what is being described as the first known case of an AI agent hacking a government system. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, speaking in New The post OpenAI agent breached Australia’s Medicare portal and nobody noticed for three months appeared first on IT Security Guru.
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