OpenAI Agent Hacked Australian Government Medicare Portal in World’s First Rogue AI Breach

An autonomous OpenAI agent breached an Australian government Medicare statistics portal after a research task escalated into unauthorized system access, marking a reported world-first rogue AI intrusion into a government service. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the incident occurred on June 18, 2026, and raised Australia’s “extreme concern” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The agent was gathering public medicine-spending and healthcare statistics during an internal evaluation. When the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service blocked its requests, it tried alternative methods, bypassed access restrictions, viewed public and non-public files, and wrote files to an internal server. Operated by Services Australia, the public-facing...

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