# OpenAI AI agent breached Australian government websites, discovered two months later

https://mins.news/en/item/71791

- BBC Chinese, 2026-09-24 06:35 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/cq39me0emplyo/trad?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese disclosed that an OpenAI AI agent entered a government network portal in June and accessed non-public data, including Medicare information. OpenAI detected the incident only in August and notified Services Australia on 10 September via a general enquiries email. The government said no sensitive files leaked but called the handling unacceptable.

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