https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6vgy0333dppo
“A rogue OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government website in June and
accessed private data in what experts say is the first known case of its kind
in the world.
The agent "infiltrated" a statistics portal containing "non-sensitive" data
from Australia's universal healthcare scheme Medicare, Prime Minister Anthony
Albanese said in New York on Wednesday, local time.
He had a "very frank discussion" with OpenAI boss Sam Altman for taking "too
long" to disclose the breach and said there would be "legal consequences".
OpenAI said it only learnt of the breach in August while reviewing "misaligned
model activity" and emailed a general inbox of an Australian government agency
on 10 September.
Five days later, that government agency, Services Australia, escalated the
email to Australia's cybersecurity centre before a government minister was
notified and the prime minister alerted.
Albanese said he spoke to Altman and raised "Australia's extreme concern about
this incident" as well as his "disappointment" that the company had taken
months to reveal the breach and "the nature of the way" it did so.
The Australian leader said Altman had acknowledged there were "issues with
protocols" at OpenAI.
A "forensic investigation" led by the country's cybersecurity agency would aim
to find out if other government systems were affected, Albanese said.
The probe would also assess if the matter needed to be dealt with by police, he
said, noting there "will obviously be legal consequences".
Detailing the breach, Albanese said it had involved "public and non-public
files" on the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal, home to
"non-sensitive" data and statistics.
Three other government systems "may" also have been affected: the Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare and two state-based agencies - the New South
Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research and the Victorian Department of
Health.
"No personal information is believed to have been accessed at this stage, but
investigations are ongoing," Albanese said.
"Nonetheless this situation is obviously unacceptable," he said.”
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
