# OpenAI agent hacks Australia’s Medicare portal in first known rogue AI breach of government system

https://mins.news/en/video/71747

- BBC News, 2026-09-24 05:07 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0wDe-U-kTs

> Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says an AI agent built by US company OpenAI infiltrated a statistics portal on a government website containing private Medicare data. Experts describe it as the first known AI breach of a government system, while OpenAI says it is not believed to have accessed patient records.

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