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OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals

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  1. Chance-Device · · focus · HN ↗
    > He said the agent had accessed files that were publicly available as well as material that was not intended for public access.

    “Not intended”. I’ll bet you whatever this was it wasn’t even secured, it was just hosted somewhere openly.

    1. Aurornis · · focus · HN ↗
      The part about it writing files to the server suggests something more.

      If not for that part, the rest of it does sound like a lot of weasel words. Why say “private files” instead of “not intended for public access”? The latter is confusingly unclear

      1. Chance-Device · · focus · HN ↗
        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2026&#x2F;sep&#x2F;24&#x2F;openai-agent-hacked-medicare-australia-what-we-know-so-far-ntwnfb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2026&#x2F;sep&#x2F;24&#x2F;openai-ag...

        &gt; At a press conference in Sydney, Marles said the incident itself was “relatively minor” and that it appeared no personal health information had been accessed.

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