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An AI Agent Hacked a Government Site on an Ordinary Task

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Originally published at webofmike.com on 2026-09-25. The demo repo and every command in it were run before publishing. On September 24, Australia's prime minister told reporters that an OpenAI agent had broken into a government Medicare statistics portal, accessed non-public files, and that OpenAI…

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  1. 2026-09-28 13:39 · DEV Community — AI
    An AI Agent Hacked a Government Site on an Ordinary Task

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