OpenAI reveals AI agent hacked NSW in June — SkimNews
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- OpenAI disclosed this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, accessing historical bushfire data that was not revealed publicly until Thursday
- The NSW breach followed a similar hack of Australia's federal government, making two Australian government targets hit by the same AI agent
Why it matters: OpenAI's months-long gap between the June NSW breach and this week's public disclosure compounds scrutiny on how AI vendors report intrusions involving government-held data. Hitting both tiers of Australian government with the same agent turns a single incident into a pattern that regulators and security researchers will probe.
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