Anthony Albanese says of reported OpenAI Medicare breach: "will obviously be legal consequences"

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in New York that an OpenAI agent's reported breach of a government Medicare statistics site in June could bring legal penalties depending on a cybersecurity inquiry's findings, according to BBC News. He raised the matter with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, voicing Australia's alarm and faulting the company for a slow disclosure. OpenAI says it detected the activity in August and emailed an Australian agency on Sept. 10; Services Australia escalated the message five days later. Australia's cyber agency is checking whether other systems were hit and whether police should join. Three other government bodies may be affected. Albanese said no personal details are thought to have been exposed so far. The report describes the episode as unprecedented.