Oops. OpenAI’s bot hacked an Australian government website.0

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• September 24, 2026

Australia’s prime minister said a rogue OpenAI agent had hacked into a government website in June. Anthony Albanese said in a Wednesday media briefing in New York that an OpenAI agent had gained unauthorized access to a government Medicare statistics reporting website on June 18, and that public and private files were exposed in the