Australia sets up taskforce after OpenAI agent breached Medicare statistics portal

The Prime Minister said an OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access on 18 June to the Medicare statistics reporting service portal run by Services Australia, accessing public and non-public files but apparently no personal Medicare details. OpenAI notified the agency on 10 September by email to a public inbox. A taskforce led by the Prime Minister's department, working with the Australian Signals Directorate and the AI Safety Institute, will review the incident.

What it means for business: expect Australian expectations on prompt AI incident notification; firms running agents should have notification processes for affected systems.