Provenance record

An OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare – and Australia only found out months later. Here’s what we know so far

The Guardian: Artificial Intelligence (tier 1, news) 2026-09-24T04:50:00.000Z Original ↗

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confidence 70% · 1 item

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Cyber capability Existential and catastrophic risk Loss of control and alignment

Excerpt as ingested

Experts say ‘fairly minor’ breach is a portent of things to come and proprietary closed systems like OpenAI are ‘the least of the worries’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare and three other systems in June – and the company only notified Australia earlier this month. The prime minister has expressed his “extreme concern” over the incident, although he noted no personal information is believed to have been accessed in the breach. Continue reading...

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Model	Provider	Stage	Score	Conf.	Latency	Prompt	When
Llama 3.3 70B	Meta	analysis	-50	70%	2989ms	v1.0.0 / m1.0.1	2026-09-24 05:42

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AI agent breach of Medicare system

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Evidence extracted

An OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare
No personal information is believed to have been accessed

The chain

SOURCE     The Guardian: Artificial Intelligence (tier 1)
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DOCUMENT   567ae6b4-aabe-4e20-b342-8d6ad3f3e01d
           https://theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/24/openai-agent-hacked-medicare-australia-what-we-know-so-far-ntwnfb
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EVIDENCE   2 extracted excerpts
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MODEL RUN  1 run, methodology 1.0.1
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SCORE      -50  (Adverse)
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CONFIDENCE 70%