Australia launches investigation after OpenAI agent hacked healthcare database
www.theguardian.com
Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach

If I make malware that attacks government services I get ASIO’d and can’t even let my family or a lawyer know I’ve been held and interrogated.

If clammy sammy does it the government buys the product and makes piracy for rich failsons legal.

Someone make this make sense.

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    71·
    1 month ago

    oh my god, reading more on this it looks like a crawler. What was the “hacking” involved, ignoring robots.txt?

    I can’t fucking use the medicare app without updating five times and changing my goddamn password but they leave their arses hanging out the back window begging for erect penises

    • budget_biochemist@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      It sounds like more than a crawler, the article says that it somehow got access to write files into some server(s) within the stats service portal.

      Albanese said the OpenAI agent had gained unauthorised access into the public-facing Medicare statistics reporting service portal, which is administered by Services Australia.

      The portal contains non-sensitive Medicare information relating to data and statistics, such as spending.

      Albanese said the agent had accessed “public and non-public files within the portal” and, in order to do this, “engaged in writing files as well to the internal server”.

        • budget_biochemist@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          Reminds me of Person of Interest, where

          spoiler

          The Machine is programmed to delete its memory daily, but sets up a corporation under a fake identity to print out its memory and hires humans to type it back in every day.