Australia’s prime minister said it doesn’t seem like any personal health information was compromised.

An OpenAI agent hacked into the public website of the Australian government's Medicare public health insurance system in June, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed. Albanese said he spoke with Sam Altman, the company's CEO, to express the country's "extreme concern" about the incident. He also criticized the company for taking too long to notify Australian authorities.

According to The Guardian, OpenAI only sent an email about the breach to a general Australian government email address on September 10. And since authorities only check that account once a day, they didn't see it until September 11. The news didn't reach minister for government services, Katy Gallagher, until September 17. While the investigation is still ongoing, Albanese said it doesn't seem like the agent stole personal health information from the portal.

Conrad Stosz, the head of governance at Transluce, a nonprofit research lab working on technology to better understand AI systems, told The New York Times that this might be the "first instance of an agent autonomously choosing to hack into a government." Transluce identified other previously undisclosed incidents, wherein OpenAI's agents attacked real-world entities when they were instructed to collect data during testing. They all occurred before Hugging Face detected unauthorized access on its systems in July and before OpenAI admitted that its agents broke into the AI repository.

In addition to hacking into Australia's Medicare, OpenAI's agent also tried to infiltrate a digital library at the University of New Mexico on May 25 and 26, The Times reports.

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