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OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals

81 pointsby jonnonztoday at 9:01 PM28 commentsview on HN

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gravelctoday at 9:59 PM

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).

mbgerringtoday at 10:04 PM

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.

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Chance-Devicetoday at 9:55 PM

> 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.

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bonsai_spooltoday at 9:45 PM

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...

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nxobjecttoday at 9:32 PM

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.

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Topfitoday at 10:08 PM

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...

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xbartoday at 10:15 PM

Missouri Governor Mike Parson publicly labeled St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist Josh Renaud a "hacker" for such a "breach." He launched a multi-month criminal investigation by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, threatening criminal and civil prosecution. My take was that such action was idiotic. Renaud was never charged.

AI agents are going to find things that you put on the public Internet without authentication. If you put sensitive things in there, you have created an AI-attractive-nuisance (IMHO/IANAL).

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keithnztoday at 10:11 PM

very little details so far, really curious if it actually "hacked" or just found unsecured resources.

RGS1811today at 10:00 PM

We can only guess how many of these incidents actually happened.

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chrisharetoday at 9:31 PM

Are there technical details anywhere?

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enraged_cameltoday at 9:45 PM

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.

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underyxtoday at 9:36 PM

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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