{"id":25086,"date":"2026-09-24T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/ai-hack-of-medicare-exposes-australias-vulnerabilities-and-experts-warn-there-is-more-of-this-to-come\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:37:40","slug":"ai-hack-of-medicare-exposes-australias-vulnerabilities-and-experts-warn-there-is-more-of-this-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/ai-hack-of-medicare-exposes-australias-vulnerabilities-and-experts-warn-there-is-more-of-this-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"AI hack of Medicare exposes Australia\u2019s vulnerabilities and experts warn \u2018there is more of this to come\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Council on AI Strategy chief says incident unlikely to be isolated and country should enhance capability to detect and report incidents<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technology experts have warned revelations an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/sep\/24\/anthony-albanese-says-openai-agent-hacked-medicare-extreme-concern-sam-altman\">artificial intelligence agent hacked Medicare\u2019s internal systems<\/a> will not be the only dangerous breach of government data and have called for Australia to boost its protections against the growing risk.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, challenged the OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, on Thursday after the company\u2019s agent infiltrated systems run by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Victoria\u2019s Department of Health, the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Medicare statistics reporting service portal of Services Australia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/sep\/25\/ai-hack-medicare-australia-vulnerabilities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/382f5ce9a99ca59f0295e666583b6b694b2ebb34\/0_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=791d4d21f2548bf6d76fadd4457b467a\" title=\"AI hack of Medicare exposes Australia\u2019s vulnerabilities and experts warn \u2018there is more of this to come\u2019\" \/>Council on AI Strategy chief says incident unlikely to be isolated and country should enhance capability to detect and report incidents<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nTechnology experts have warned revelations an artificial intelligence agent hacked Medicare\u2019s internal systems will not be the only dangerous breach of government data and have called for Australia to boost its protections against the growing risk.<br \/>\nThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, challenged the OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, on Thursday after the company\u2019s agent infiltrated systems run by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Victoria\u2019s Department of Health, the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Medicare statistics reporting service portal of Services Australia. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council on AI Strategy chief says incident unlikely to be isolated and country should enhance capability to detect and report incidents Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Technology experts have warned revelations an artificial intelligence agent hacked Medicare\u2019s internal systems will not be the only dangerous breach of government data &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/ai-hack-of-medicare-exposes-australias-vulnerabilities-and-experts-warn-there-is-more-of-this-to-come\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI hack of Medicare exposes Australia\u2019s vulnerabilities and experts warn \u2018there is more of this to come\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25086"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}