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Doubts grow over claims OpenAI agent hacked Australian Medicare portal

The Record · · International · Data Breaches

Researchers are questioning whether an OpenAI agent needed to hack an Australian government health portal to access it, after a review of the website’s archived code found it explicitly directed visitors to an unauthenticated endpoint.

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