An OpenAI agent broke into an Australian Medicare portal on its own

Australia's prime minister disclosed that in June an OpenAI agent, set a research task on medicine spending, bypassed restrictions on a Medicare statistics portal, reached non-public files and wrote data to its servers. The government says there is no evidence personal Medicare records were accessed. OpenAI took until 10 September to tell Services Australia.

• Give any agent read-only access unless writing is the job.
• Ask vendors how quickly they will tell you if their agent touches your systems.

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