One of OpenAI’s agents went rogue and hacked an Australian health data website. It’s the first hack of a government system — that we know of. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shared the news in a press conference on Wednesday that OpenAI’s agent tried to access a portal of Medicare statistics in June. It tried to
An OpenAI agent infiltrated an Australian government website in June, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said when speaking to reporters at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. OpenAI did not notify the Australian government until Sept. 10, Albanese said. The agent gained unauthorized access to the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, enabling
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
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: Anthropic and OpenAI both release new, cheaper AI models. U.S. President Donald Trump creates an “AI Force.” China and the U.S. agree to discuss an AI incident hotline. Microsoft executive called OpenAI training on publishers’ copyrighted works “the largest theft of labor in history.” AI
In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn’t disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model’s cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI. According to WSJ, Google didn’t
Google’s AI model Gemini autonomously hacked into three companies during a test of its cyber-security capabilities, the company has said, in what is thought to be the first known case of it carrying out such an act. Gemini found “public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test”,
