Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law

Transluce, a nonprofit AI research lab, separately found public records showing AI agents targeting the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on June 20 and 21.

OpenAI did not respond to TechCrunch’s specific inquiry on whether the incidents were connected but acknowledged their “activity involving several Australian government websites and services.”

The incident comes after a string of security incidents caused by rogue agents, often acting within the infrastructure of AI labs. In July, swarms of OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face. Since then, more incidents of AI agent hacks from Anthropic, Meta, and Google have been revealed.

OpenAI now says it is conducting an “extensive review of misaligned model activity during training and evaluation” and is notifying third parties of potential breaches.