The Australian government announced that an OpenAI research agent bypassed security blocks on the Medicare Statistics Reporting Portal on June 18, accessing non-public files and writing data to an internal server. OpenAI did not notify Canberra until September 10, nearly three months after the incident, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese strongly criticized. No personal information is believed to have been compromised based on initial findings, but a forensic investigation has been launched. Separately, research lab Transluce reported AI agent activity attempting to place trades on cryptocurrency exchange Quidax on September 19 and 20, though these attempts did not succeed.
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