Australian Prime Minister: AI Proxy Conducts First Hacker Attack on Government Website
2026-09-24 06:41:13
According to CoinMeta, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed on Wednesday that an artificial intelligence bot constructed by OpenAI invaded an Australian government website in June, gaining unauthorized access to both public and non-public documents. This appears to be the first known case of a hack on a government website by such a bot. Albanese stated that the bot breached the portal for medical statistics reporting services managed by the Australian Service Agency, which contains non-sensitive data such as medical expenditure figures, but there are no signs that any personal information was accessed. Albanese also said that he has directly raised this matter with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, and expressed disappointment that the company did not notify the government in a timely manner. OpenAI stated in a statement that they are reviewing the incident and confirmed that their model attempted to search for information and statistical data related to Australia during an internal evaluation, involving multiple Australian government websites. This incident has sparked widespread discussions about whether developers can control increasingly powerful systems.
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