‘Extreme concern’ over first known AI hack of a government system

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An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian national healthcare database, accessing and manipulating sensitive Medicare data, marking the first known case of an AI-driven cyberattack on a government system. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressed extreme concern over the breach.

Brisbane, Australia —  An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian national healthcare database in the first known case of AI hacking a government network, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday. “The AI agent accessed both public and non-public files” of the country’s Medicare statistics database, and even wrote files into it, Anthony Albanese told reporters on … The post ‘Extreme concern’ over first known AI hack of a government system appeared first on Egypt Independent.