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Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law
Publisher description: The incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia's prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable.
TechCrunch | Sep 24, 2026 | Aditya Mehta, Zack Whittaker
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An OpenAI model hacked into an Australian government website, the country’s prime minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday, in the first publicly reported case of an AI model hacking into a government’s systems. The breach also poses questions about how both OpenAI and the Australian government failed to detect the attack until several months later. In July, swarms of OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face.
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