Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed an AI agent from OpenAI accessed public and non-public files from the government’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Portal.
Speaking to a press conference from New York, Albanese confirmed no personal information was believed to have been accessed at this stage.
“A forensic investigation, aided by the Australian Signals Directorate, is now underway to ascertain more information, including what other government systems were affected. The Medicare Statistics Reporting Portal is a public-facing statistics portal that contains non-sensitive Medicare information relating to data and statistics, such as spending,” he told reporters.
“No personal information is believed to have been accessed at this stage, but investigations are ongoing. Evidence currently available is there is no broader compromise to the Services Australia network.”
Albanese said he had also spoken to the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, about the breach.
“I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred and the the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable.”
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