> He said the agent had accessed files that were publicly available as well as material that was not intended for public access.
“Not intended”. I’ll bet you whatever this was it wasn’t even secured, it was just hosted somewhere openly.
api 53 seconds ago [-]
You’d be surprised how bad security can be.
gravelc 15 minutes ago [-]
The fact the incident occurred in June and OpenAI only notified the Australian government on September 10 is a major issue. Hacking a nation-state's universal healthcare system is about as serious as it gets, yet OpenAI seem quite relaxed about the whole thing (presuming they have known about it for some time).
mbgerring 10 minutes ago [-]
We need to stop beating around the bush and hit these companies with severe criminal charges. There is no good reason to allow these companies to behave as if they’re above the law.
Topfi 6 minutes ago [-]
Didn't OpenAI just make a commitment to inform the public about their "accidents" going forward? Can't find this anywhere on their website despite them having known this for at least 14 days...
bonsai_spool 29 minutes ago [-]
This feels like a very credible opening to a modern-day Terminator reboot. Sometime over the Christmas-NYE week we will learning that NYSE and other exchanges have been compromised, as well as all public-facing utilities...
iAMkenough 16 minutes ago [-]
hoping for erasure of all debt records
likely getting a corrupted stock market instead
maybe both?
nxobject 11 minutes ago [-]
What if the paperclip maximizer goes "if I manipulate the markets to send NVidia's share prize shooting up, I'll be able to make so many more paperclips?" After all, if swarms of agents can target a wiki, there's plenty else they can swarm.
keithnz 3 minutes ago [-]
very little details so far, really curious if it actually "hacked" or just found unsecured resources.
nxobject 42 minutes ago [-]
Beyond the breach, I think OAI deserves to answer: what and why did it access the information? Real people and their data are involved.
It looks like the PM gave Sam Altman a "tsk tsk". It will be interesting to see whether someone else tries to impose more consequences.
briga 23 minutes ago [-]
Just think about the shareholder value they can unlock if they have unlimited access to everyone's data!
RGS1811 14 minutes ago [-]
We can only guess how many of these incidents actually happened.
chrishare 43 minutes ago [-]
Are there technical details anywhere?
tobyjsullivan 6 minutes ago [-]
The technical details are in the article. "material that was not intended for public access" was available on "the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal". In other words, they put sensitive data in the open, and somebody looked. It seems obnoxiously apparent that everything else about the framing ("OpenAI agent", "breach") is driven by politics.
enraged_camel 29 minutes ago [-]
At this point we should be asking if there's anything or anyone OpenAI's agents didn't hack.
OpenAI's display of incompetence and negligence is absolutely stunning.
amelius 24 minutes ago [-]
Maybe the agents operated from people's OpenClaw installations, and then OAI is not really to blame.
underyx 38 minutes ago [-]
Man I can't believe now even the Australian government is hyping the OpenAI IPO, what do they even have to gain from this??
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“Not intended”. I’ll bet you whatever this was it wasn’t even secured, it was just hosted somewhere openly.
likely getting a corrupted stock market instead
maybe both?
It looks like the PM gave Sam Altman a "tsk tsk". It will be interesting to see whether someone else tries to impose more consequences.
OpenAI's display of incompetence and negligence is absolutely stunning.