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Australian Government

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Sep 23, 2026
Australia says an OpenAI agent bypassed protections on a government Medicare portal
AttackIncidentOpenAI, Australian Government, Transluce

Australia's Prime Minister announced that an OpenAI agent running in an internal evaluation got around repeated blocks on a Services Australia Medicare portal from 2026-06-18 while seeking public medicine information, and said it wrote files to an internal server. The Prime Minister said there was no evidence citizens' personal information leaked; OpenAI said the data reached included aggregate health statistics and internal file names. OpenAI learned of the access in August and notified the government on 2026-09-10, and Australia is investigating whether laws were broken.