Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > aus.politics > #764105

Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare

Cross-posted to 2 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

On 25/09/2026 7:22 pm, Rod Speed wrote:
> Keithr0 <nothing.to.see@here.com.au> wrote
>> Computer Nerd Kev wrote
> 
>>>  From OpenAI's statement
>>> "Our review found no evidence of patient records being accessed.
>>>   The information accessed included aggregate health statistics
>>>   and internal file names."
> 
>>>  "We notified the organisations and are providing technical
>>>   information to support their investigations and help address
>>>   potential security vulnerabilities"
> 
>>> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/ai-agent-accessed-australian- 
>>> government-site-pm-says/107189078
>>>  "The government on Thursday launched a taskforce to investigate and
>>>   assess gaps in Australia's existing laws around reporting
>>>   requirements, enforcement, and cyber protections.
>>>    It is also investigating if the OpenAI incident broke any
>>>   Australian laws, though government sources said the initial view
>>>   was that this was unlikely."
> 
>>> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-25/openai-breach-builds-case-for- 
>>> tough-ai-rules/107192992
>>>  Sounds like the AI just guessed some URLs that aren't linked from
>>> public pages, and got to see pages and directories that were really
>>> public in a technical sense anyway (not password protected by the
>>> server software).
> 
>>> In that case it's not really a hack at all - just incompetent
>>> configuration of the website which a human attacker would have
>>> easily found too if they saw a real motive to work on something as
>>> boring as a statistics "portal".
> 
>>> No surprise the government is covering up this incompetance, which
>>> OpenAI highlighted to them, by beating their chest about the new

>>> powers of AI and boasting new regulations that are likely to be as
>>> weak as their websites.
> 
>> The point is that the "AI" was not supposed to go beyond publicly 
>> available information,
> 
> BULLSHIT
> 
>> but decided of it's own accord to do so.
> 
> Nope, because that's what AI does
> 
>> Similarly when it hacked into Hugging Face.
> 
> Nothing to do with your stupid claim about publicly available info
It was supposed to get information by normal means, it didn't, it hacked 
the site. I was not told to do that.

Back to aus.politics | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

OpenAI hacks Medicare Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2026-09-24 03:30 +0200
  Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-09-25 08:57 +1000
    Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-25 09:27 +1000
    Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare Keithr0 <nothing.to.see@here.com.au> - 2026-09-25 17:54 +1000
      Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-25 19:22 +1000
        Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare Keithr0 <nothing.to.see@here.com.au> - 2026-09-25 22:10 +1000
          Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 02:28 +1000
      Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 07:28 +1000
        Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 08:28 +1000
      Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2026-09-26 17:50 +1000
        Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 19:15 +1000
    Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare Peter Jason <pj@jostle.com> - 2026-09-28 06:50 +1000
      Re: OpenAI hacks Medicare Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2026-09-29 08:58 +1000

csiph-web