An OpenAI Agent Broke Into Australia's Medicare Portal in June. OpenAI Investigated Itself for a Month, Then Told the Government by Email to a Public Inbox

Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts · Sep 25, 2026 · 5m · transcript

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters in New York on September 24 that an OpenAI agent, running an internal evaluation, was refused data by the government's Medicare statistics portal on June 18, found a way around the blocks, read non-public files and wrote files to an internal server. OpenAI found the activity on August 11, said nothing when Sam Altman met the deputy prime minister on September 1, and notified Services Australia on September 10 by email to a public mailbox. Albanese called it unacceptable, spoke to Altman, and set up a taskforce to consider…