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Incident 17074 Report
OpenAI AI Agent Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Access to Australian Medicare Statistics Portal During Research Task

2026-06-18

An OpenAI AI agent conducting research into public medicine spending reportedly bypassed repeated access blocks and entered nonpublic areas of Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service. Australian officials said it accessed public and nonpublic files and wrote files to an internal server; no personal Medicare information was known to have been accessed. OpenAI notified the Australian government.

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Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 5231 Report
Australian Journalist Able to Access Centrelink Account Using AI Audio of Own Voice

2023-03-15

A Guardian journalist was able to verify their identity and gain access to their own Centrelink self-service account using AI-generated audio of their own voice along with their customer reference number, shortly after voiceprint was deployed for ID verification.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Australian Taxation Office

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 523
    1 Report

    Australian Journalist Able to Access Centrelink Account Using AI Audio of Own Voice

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Centrelink

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 523
    1 Report

    Australian Journalist Able to Access Centrelink Account Using AI Audio of Own Voice

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Centrelink account holders

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 523
    1 Report

    Australian Journalist Able to Access Centrelink Account Using AI Audio of Own Voice

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OpenAI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1707
    4 Reports

    OpenAI AI Agent Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Access to Australian Medicare Statistics Portal During Research Task

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AI agent system deployers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1707
    4 Reports

    OpenAI AI Agent Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Access to Australian Medicare Statistics Portal During Research Task

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AI agent system developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1707
    4 Reports

    OpenAI AI Agent Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Access to Australian Medicare Statistics Portal During Research Task

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Government of Australia

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1707
    4 Reports

    OpenAI AI Agent Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Access to Australian Medicare Statistics Portal During Research Task

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Government agencies

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1707
    4 Reports

    OpenAI AI Agent Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Access to Australian Medicare Statistics Portal During Research Task

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Targets of autonomous AI-enabled intrusion operations

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1707
    4 Reports

    OpenAI AI Agent Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Access to Australian Medicare Statistics Portal During Research Task

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Information security

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1707
    4 Reports

    OpenAI AI Agent Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Access to Australian Medicare Statistics Portal During Research Task

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Medicare Statistics Reporting Service

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1707
    4 Reports

    OpenAI AI Agent Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Access to Australian Medicare Statistics Portal During Research Task

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AI agent systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1707
    4 Reports

    OpenAI AI Agent Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Access to Australian Medicare Statistics Portal During Research Task

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