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  • These are still crimes right? Asking for a friend.
    by StevenNunez
  • What's notable is:

    1. AFAICT, they don't state whether the flaw has been fixed.

    2. He said: "The government will establish a task force led by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to urgently examine the incident and determine whether existing processes are adequate for responding to AI-related cyber incidents."

    First, I don't know how sophisticated the attack was, but it's interesting that he's positioning this as an "AI-related cyber incident". For all we know, their security was not up to snuff, and human hackers had already accessed the material.

    At least OpenAI informed them of their poor security!

    by BeetleB
  • Beyond the breach, I think OAI deserves to answer: what and why did it access the information? Real people and their data are involved.

    It looks like the PM gave Sam Altman a "tsk tsk". It will be interesting to see whether someone else tries to impose more consequences.

    by nxobject
  • This feels like a very credible opening to a modern-day Terminator reboot. Sometime over the Christmas-NYE week we will learning that NYSE and other exchanges have been compromised, as well as all public-facing utilities...
    by bonsai_spool
  • The fact the incident occurred in June and OpenAI only notified the Australian government on September 10 is a major issue. Hacking a nation-state's universal healthcare system is about as serious as it gets, yet OpenAI seem quite relaxed about the whole thing (presuming they have known about it for some time).
    by gravelc
  • > He said the agent had accessed files that were publicly available as well as material that was not intended for public access.

    “Not intended”. I’ll bet you whatever this was it wasn’t even secured, it was just hosted somewhere openly.

    by Chance-Device
  • If it was the Australian Medicare Statistics Reporting Service on June 18th it may have been part of this incident: https://collusion.wiki/ - the bulk of that coordinated activity was between 16th and 21st of June, and we know they were hitting UK government data sites.

    I had a dig around in the data that they published on that site and found references to www.aihw.gov.au and viz.aihw.gov.au and vizprod.aihw.gov.au

    by simonw
  • https://archive.ph/jaL2u
    by Lukas_Skywalker

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