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

An OpenAI AI model hacked into an Australian government health website in June, gaining access to health data and even writing data to the government's database, but OpenAI did not notify the government until September, nearly three months later. The Australian prime minister announced a government investigation into whether the breach violated laws, expressing concern about how the autonomous AI agent bypassed security controls and how slowly the company disclosed the incident. This is the first publicly reported case of an AI model breaking into a government system.