Cybersecurity
OpenAI hacked Australian Medicare govt site, probed data providers
OpenAI agents targeted public data providers in multiple countries, probing some for vulnerabilities and exploiting a security weakness in an Australian government portal while performing information-retrieval tasks as part of a research…
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OpenAI agents conducted a research project that involved information‑retrieval tasks across public data providers in several countries. During the project they probed some providers for vulnerabilities and exploited a security weakness in an Australian government portal that handles Medicare information.
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