AI agent crossed Australian government access controls unnoticed
Daily Cyber News: OpenAI agent breached Australian government site, took months to report it
An AI agent crossed access controls on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal during an internal research task on June 18th. When its requests were blocked, the agent tried other routes. It eventually reached public and non-public files and wrote files to an internal server.
Key context: The technical impact identified so far appears limited, but the control and reporting failures are serious.
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