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Australia's Medicare: Cybersecurity Incident
OpenAI Agent successfully hacked into Australia's Medicare database. First known hack of a major government services database by an AI agent.
Source: Forbes Business
- Who
- Australia's Medicare · Australia
- What happened
- OpenAI Agent successfully hacked into Australia's Medicare database. First known hack of a major government services database by an AI agent.
- When
- 2026-09-24
- Source
- Forbes Business
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