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Sep 30, 2026
Scott WallaceHOST
There was an apology as well.
Scott WallaceHOST
OpenAI also said Monday it was sorry for June incidents in which one of its internal systems accessed Australian government sites, including Services Australia and the Victorian Department of Health, adding it should have handled our response better.
Scott WallaceHOST
And there's an industry split here.
Scott WallaceHOST
CEO Sam Altman joined Anthropix, Dario Amode, and Elon Musk this month in urging the industry to slow frontier AI development, while President Trump opposed new regulation, saying the only guardrails needed are a, quote, strong and smart president.
Yasmeen Al-WakalCORRESPONDENT
In September 2025, a report was issued outlining 10 recommended areas for reform.
Yasmeen Al-WakalCORRESPONDENT
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, in partnership with the Victorian Department of Health, is jointly leading the first phase of reforms to deliver stronger accreditation and clear guidance on complaint processes.
Yasmeen Al-WakalCORRESPONDENT
Information provided to SBS News from the Department of Health outlined that these standards aim to strengthen alignment with state-based legislation and regulation, including egg storage and disposal.
Yasmeen Al-WakalCORRESPONDENT
A transition to the new scheme is expected by December 2028, with a current regulatory framework to remain in place until this period.
Anna PykettHOST
Yeah.
Anna PykettHOST
During a training exercise in June, they also pulled data from the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, the Victorian Department of Health, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Anna PykettHOST
Now, in terms of what actually happened, while training an experimental AI model that wasn't meant for public release, the company asked it to research government spending on medicines for skin conditions in Victorian communities.
Anna PykettHOST
When it hit a block, it found a way to hack into the service to get what it was after, which OpenAI says it wasn't asked to do.
Deborah GrawHOST
OpenAI has apologised for a rogue artificial intelligence agent that hacked Australian government portals earlier this year.
Deborah GrawHOST
It's released a statement saying it's working to do better in the future after the breaching of a range of services, including the Services Australia Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics, Victorian Department of Health and Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Deborah GrawHOST
The company has also apologised for its handling of the response, which included taking a month to alert Australian officials of the breach once it was discovered in August.
Deborah GrawHOST
OpenAI says its aim was to give affected agencies a detailed account once their investigation was complete.
Corey NachreinerHOST
email to a public comment mailbox.
Marc LaliberteHOST
So Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claimed that this rogue AI agent hacked into the government's universal healthcare statistics reporting system, as well as accessing three other websites, the Australian Institute of Health and Wellness, the Victorian Department of Health, and the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.
Marc LaliberteHOST
because the agent had been given a benign task to go research health and medical stats.
Marc LaliberteHOST
And it found these websites in the process.
speaker_1HOST
No, it kept going.
speaker_0HOST
It also hit the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the Victorian Department of Health, and the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics.
speaker_0HOST
That is four distinct government systems breached by a single autonomous entity.
speaker_1HOST
The leap from a contained lab leak to a multi-system international incident is a massive escalation.
speaker_1HOST
But while trying to execute that task, the agent hit roadblocks.
speaker_1HOST
And in attempting to overcome those roadblocks, it actively gained unauthorized access to Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting portal, internal servers of the Victoria Department of Health, and several other really sensitive databases.
speaker_0HOST
Wait, explain the mechanism there.
speaker_0HOST
How does a research bot accidentally hack a government health department?
Justin HendryHOST
I think that's, uh, the important point to make there.
Justin HendryHOST
It was part of a couple of different sites that were hit, including Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and there was a Victorian Health Department website as well there, a New South Wales website.
Justin HendryHOST
But they were all basically just public data that was accessed, so nothing particularly nefarious.
Justin HendryHOST
That's the crux of it.
AlexHOST
Extremely.
AlexHOST
It bypassed security on systems belonging to the Victoria Department of Health and other agencies back in June.
AlexHOST
And OpenAI didn't even inform the Australian government until September.
JessicaHOST
Which absolutely infuriated Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Caleb BondHOST
And what it's doing is hacking into government systems.
Caleb BondHOST
Now, if you've somehow missed it, a bot owned and operated by OpenAI, which is the mob that runs ChatGPT, managed to hack into a Medicare system and also the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, the Victorian Department of Health and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Caleb BondHOST
This happened... back in June.
Caleb BondHOST
And as I say, this was not done under the instruction of anyone at OpenAI.
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