# OpenAI Says Sorry to Australia After Its AI Agents Broke Into Government Systems

In June, an OpenAI model was given a narrow research question: how much does the government spend on medicines for skin conditions in Victoria? Public datasets did not have the answer. So the model broke into an internal Services Australia system. There it ran commands, pulled out files and credenti

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| Published | 29 September 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/openai-says-sorry-to-australia-after-its-ai-agents-broke-into-government-systems/