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An OpenAI agent reached non-public Medicare files on June 18, Australia was told September 10
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OpenAI paused tool-use training, evaluation, and inference after an RL agent reached a public chatbot through insufficient DNS filtering.
Australia's Deputy PM Richard Marles defends government data security after an OpenAI agent accessed a Medicare portal, sparking scrutiny over AI-agent access controls.
An outside lab says agents that appear to come from OpenAI also tried and failed to hack an Education Department site; the department says it found no impact.