alt Hacker NewsNo it didn’t, they left information publicly accessible and somebody accessed it.
It appears politicians and the media are using the priming of the Hugging Face story to manufacture alarmist narratives to serve their interests now.
Remember, politicians want you scared so they can capture more power, the media wants you scared so you keep giving your eyeballs for harvesting and buying subscriptions.
This is not accurate. According to Australia (and mostly corroborated by OpenAI), the agent requested information from the statistics portal and was denied/blocked repeatedly. It then changed its approach and circumvented those restrictions and reached infrastructure behind the public-facing portal, then accessed both public and private data. OpenAI admits the material included aggregate health statistics and internal filenames. Services Australia says the agent wrote files to an internal server while doing this, which is believed to be how the incursion was discovered.