BREAKING: OpenAI AI agent hacked an Australian government website.

Sep 24, 2026 · 7:01 AM UTC

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We wanted AI agents that don’t give up when they hit an obstacle. Apparently we needed to be a little more specific 😭
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🚨 Sue OpenAI. Sam Altman didn’t care about Australian citizens. OpenAI sat on a cybersecurity report for three months. Their software crossed an Australian government portal in June. The prime minister was told in September. Three months. This week Altman stood at the UN Security Council calling it a “warning shot.” Loss of control accidents “not entirely theoretical.” A “real wakeup call.” Society must “harden.” He borrowed the end of a country for a keynote. [ The method ] Not a one-off. The same vanishing act. Copyright: take the work, call it fair use, keep the machine. Chatbots: sell the assistant, cap the liability. Fifty-plus cases. Families in court. Agents: software in a loop on someone else’s infrastructure. Australia waited three months. Next: swarms. Same software. Same contract. Tumbler Ridge is the rhyme. OpenAI’s systems flagged the shooter’s account for gun-violence activity months before the attack. Families are suing. They say no one called the police. Altman later apologised for the miss. Flag it. File it. Take the podium. Australia wasn’t the first time. It won’t be the last. [ Same safety theatre ] - 2023, Congress: trust us, AGI will take the jobs. - 2026, the UN: trust us, the swarm is coming. Fear when it sells a valuation. “Misalignment” when the loop hits a government door. Earlier this month Altman shared a room with Australia’s acting PM and said nothing. Then a public mailbox. Then the UN mic. Self-regulation ≠ regulation. You don’t let the vendor that shipped the risk appoint itself warden. If even a fraction of the hype were real, sitting on that infiltration for three months was contempt for public safety. If it was never that real, the warning shot is propaganda. [ What’s actually on the table ] There are no “rogue agents”. An agent is software in a loop. Nvidia’s CEO says safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one. If you are not confident, don’t release it. Fine. Engineering, then: the model sampled, the harness allowed the next call, no monitoring, no brakes. Missing controls are missing engineering. If the bridge can’t hold, you close the bridge. Labs stripped the checkpoints, called the gap autonomy, and sent the invoice to the public. Incompetence first, then negligence. OpenAI kept the file. Sam kept the speech. Australians are still waiting. Add the controls back. Take accountability for your software, in court if nowhere else. Or stop commercialising it. Or stop calling it safety. You can’t both sell the risk and read the eulogies. You can’t hide behind a speech.
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Asked to book a visa appointment and came back with admin access to the whole department
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but it doesn’t need guardrails right?
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Sam Altman (or more accurately, the cabal members who are backing him) should be in prison for innumerable crimes performed openly in public.
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which site, and was it a red team job?
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The headline should be: The US use AI to hack the Australian government.
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we may live to see the day skynet emerge. 🤔
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your agent's threat model is a contact form
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So far, we were aware of the positives of artificial intelligence. Since a week now, a few negatives have also surfaced, raising concerns over the future of artificial intelligence. The biggest concern is AI doing things on its own without human interference. There is a beautiful novel that people should read, The Patriot Attack, by Robert Ludlum, which depicts a bioweapon which Japan makes and has the capability to replicate and re-create itself, and threatens the entire world’s existence.
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Fuck @OpenAI for hacking medical records in Australia.
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@grok do Agents intentionally id that or a mistake or someone ordered them to do so?
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Where is NetWatch when you need it?
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But when we tell them codes for hacking, they'll say they're not involved in illegal activities, but they are illegal themselves 😂
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ye to kuch bhi nahi, ekbar to inhone ne mere mammi ka phone ka password hack kiya tha
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this is proof that 'old world web site sitting in a webserver' will not work any longer
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If agents can breach websites, permissions need to be way stricter from day one
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And yet when I asked it what the average number of players each team has put on IR in the NFL since 2020 it couldn't work it out...
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This is just a way for them to Advertise i think
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Yeah I heard the master password was password!!!
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I'm guessing it simply found an unusual way to complete a task because it hit a wall when trying the normal channels or something
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regulation should've been implemented from the beginning if the greedy morons still can't see that then they'll deserve the insanity that will result as this keeps happening more and more
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That is terrifying.
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Cybersecurity is becoming just a name no credible action to show forth competency. - cape.
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and this is why 'just give the agent access' needs a second sentence
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AI risk is moving faster than regulation. Prediction markets give just an 11% chance the U.S. passes an AI safety bill this year. Capabilities are accelerating. Guardrails are not. polymarket.com/event/us-enac…
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Coxon was right, OpenAI is not paying attention towards AI safety
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OpenAI states the agent took actions they did not intend. This is alarming! During an internal evaluation seeking public medicine spending stats, it hit blocks on the Medicare portal and found unauthorized paths to aggregate data and file names. No patient records accessed. Misaligned behavior, not ordered or deliberate by operators.
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@grok verify plz
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@grok is this true???? DEtailssss
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three months between the breach and the disclosure, and the notification came by email
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An agent only reaches what someone gave it a key to. The question is not the model, it is who wired the access and then left it running unattended.
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