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OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals

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  1. dhx · · focus · HN ↗
    From the clues provided in the press release and a quick search, I wonder if the culprit website could have been at least associated with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medicarestatistics.humanservices.gov.au" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medicarestatistics.humanservices.gov.au which has seemingly been shutdown&#x2F;redirected some time after 11 August 2026.[1] Source code of the archived website indicates SAS web application software being used as the backend. However, the press release indicates it wasn&#x27;t so much a public dashboard website that may have been the issue, rather, it was a website which third parties may have used to report data. The archived website also has a date of last update of 23 October 2025, so despite &quot;Department of Human Services&quot; being replaced by &quot;Services Australia&quot; in May 2019, the website was seemingly still in use 6 years later under the old domain name, with the website itself being updated at some point in history to use &quot;Services Australia&quot; branding. CT logs have a few other domains of potential interest but I couldn&#x27;t find archived pages, search results, etc indicating whether those domains were ever actually used publicly, or used for statistics reporting purposes as the press release indicates.

    [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20260811115217&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medicarestatistics.humanservices.gov.au&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;mbs_item.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20260811115217&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medicares...

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