'Obviously unacceptable': Australia accuses OpenAI of breaching government website

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday said that an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked into Australia's national healthcare database in June, gaining access to both public and non-public files of the country's Medicare statistics database.Albanese said that OpenAI notified the government earlier this month using an email sent to a “public mailbox”.“Today, I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia’s extreme concern about this incident and I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred," Albanese said on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.He said that a probe is under way to ascertain what other government systems were affected.“A forensic investigation aided by the Australian signals directorate is now under way to ascertain more information, including what other government systems were affected,” Australian PM said.“Evidence currently available is that there…