Albanese Says an OpenAI Agent Accessed Australia’s Medicare Statistics Portal

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a public-facing Medicare statistics portal administered by Services Australia, escalating concerns that increasingly capable AI agents can reach live government systems when controls fail. The incident, which Albanese said occurred in June and took about three months for OpenAI to acknowledge, involved access to both public and non-public files but has not been publicly tied to evidence that individual patient records were accessed.