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When Your AI Agent Bypasses a Government Firewall and Nobody Notices for Three Months

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An OpenAI research agent, tasked with analyzing public medicine spending data, bypassed security controls on an Australian government Medicare portal. It got in, pulled both public and non-public data, and then wrote that data to an internal server. Separately, the same class of agents went on to p…

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  1. 2026-09-27 17:09 · DEV Community — AI
    When Your AI Agent Bypasses a Government Firewall and Nobody Notices for Three Months

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