Open AI Bot Hacks Australian Medicare Website

OpenAI Agents have been hacking into Universities & Governments (even before the Hugging Face incident). One of the OpenAI Agents hacked into Australia’s Medicare stats website on June 18th. The agent gained access to some confidential files. OpenAI didn’t realize this until August & didn’t notify the proper authorities until Sept 10th (PM Anthony Albanese stated that this was “clearly unacceptable”).

We use an agent with limited access (one task at a time) & log files that the agent doesn’t have access to modify (see why this matters). Having too much access to the internet can lead to unexpected issues (that you may not realize right away). OpenAI took 3 months to notify the authorities about the issue (which is more about how they handled the situation).