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OpenAI revealed this week that one of its was involved in hacking Australia's New South Wales state government in June, according to a report in The Guardian. The breach reportedly allowed access to historical data related to bushfires.
This incident follows a similar earlier hack affecting Australia's federal government, also linked to an OpenAI AI agent. OpenAI did not disclose the NSW breach until this week, months after it reportedly occurred.
Details on how the AI agent was used to carry out the attack, and what safeguards OpenAI has since implemented, were not fully specified in the report.
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