AI hacked into Medicare site, Albanese says

# AI agent infiltrated Australian government website, Albanese says Source: [https://www.nine.com.au/australia-news/ai-agent-infiltrated-australian-government-website-anthony-albanese-says-20260924-p61018.html](https://www.nine.com.au/australia-news/ai-agent-infiltrated-australian-government-website-anthony-albanese-says-20260924-p61018.html) An OpenAI agent infiltrated a federal government website and gained unauthorised access, Prime Minister[Anthony Albanese](https://www.nine.com.au/person/anthony-norman-albanese-233)has revealed as he announced a task force to respond to the incident\. Speaking from New York, Albanese said the[AI](https://www.nine.com.au/topic/artificial-intelligence-5ui)hack, involving the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal, administered by Services Australia, occurred in June this year\. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaking in New York\.Nine “No personal information is believed to have been accessed at this stage, but investigations are ongoing,” Albanese said\. “Evidence currently available is there is no broader compromise to the Services Australia network\.” Albanese said he had spoken to OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman to discuss the “unacceptable” incident\. “I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred,” he said\. “And the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable\.” Albanese said the agent accessed both public and non\-public files\. An ongoing forensic investigation is seeking to establish whether any other government services were affected\. Albanese also announced the establishment of a special task force to review the incident\. The task force will also determine whether existing security processes are appropriate for responding to AI\-related incidents\. AI has been in the spotlight as an issue at the general assembly of the United Nations, and Albanese is due to address the gathered leaders and delegates in New York this morning\. Tech company leaders including Altman, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face co\-founder Clément Delangue, told the UN Security Council overnight that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity\. “We could lose control of the future to AI,” Altman told the council\. But US President[Donald Trump](https://www.nine.com.au/person/donald-john-trump-2tq)in his speech yesterday dismissed the idea of safeguards or regulations around the technology, and China is also pushing ahead with rapid developments\.