{"id":93590,"date":"2026-09-24T14:43:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/ai-just-hacked-a-government-how-can-that-happen-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:43:44","slug":"ai-just-hacked-a-government-how-can-that-happen-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/ai-just-hacked-a-government-how-can-that-happen-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"AI just hacked a government. How can that happen? | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An OpenAI agent has \u201cinfiltrated&#8221; part of the Australian government&#8217;s healthcare scheme Medicare. Experts say it&#8217;s the world&#8217;s first known <!--more--> breach of a government system by rogue AI agents<\/p>\n<p>It accessed a statistics portal in June, OpenAI became aware in August and told the Australian government in September, via email.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; how can this happen? In this video, the BBC&#8217;s Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy explains. <\/p>\n<p>0:00 &#8211; 01:09 Intro<br \/>\n02:01 What happened in Australia?<br \/>\n02:36 Why would AI do this?<br \/>\n03:26 OpenAI&#8217;s response<br \/>\n04:00 AI agent v AI model<br \/>\n04:54 Previous AI hacks<br \/>\n05:51 What is OpenAI?<br \/>\n06:34 Australia&#8217;s response<br \/>\n07:50 Closed v open AI models<br \/>\n09:03 The known risks of AI<br \/>\n10:00 Could this happen again? <\/p>\n<p>#AI #OpenAI #Australia #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An OpenAI agent has \u201cinfiltrated&#8221; part of the Australian government&#8217;s healthcare scheme Medicare. Experts say it&#8217;s the world&#8217;s first known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}