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OpenAI hacked Australian Medicare govt site, probed data providers

BleepingComputer · · International · Data Breaches

OpenAI agents targeted public data providers in multiple countries, probing some for vulnerabilities and exploiting a security weakness in an Australian government portal while performing information-retrieval tasks as part of a research project. [...]

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