Private data from an Australian website has been stolen by an OpenAI hacker becoming the world’s first case of it’s kind.
The infiltration was conducted in June where “public and non-public files” on the Medicare Statistics was breached.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese(pictured above)said, the hacker “infiltrated” a statistics portal containing “non-sensitive” data from Australia’s universal healthcare scheme Medicare.
He had a “very frank discussion” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for taking “too long” to disclose the breach and said there would be “legal consequences”.
OpenAI said it only learnt of the breach in August while reviewing “misaligned model activity” and emailed a general inbox of an Australian government agency on 10 September.
Five days later, that government agency, Services Australia, escalated the email to Australia’s cybersecurity centre before a government minister was notified and the prime minister alerted.
Albanese said he spoke to Altman and raised “Australia’s extreme concern about this incident” as well as his “disappointment” that the company had taken months to reveal the breach and “the nature of the way” it did so.
The Australian leader said Altman had acknowledged there were “issues with protocols” at OpenAI.
A “forensic investigation” led by the country’s cybersecurity agency would aim to find out if other government systems were affected, Albanese said.
