OpenAI AI agent gained unauthorized access to New South Wales government resources

The AI ​​agent of the American OpenAI received unauthorized access to another Internet resource of the authorities of the Australian state of New South Wales, the ABC television and radio corporation reports, citing the administration of the state prime minister.

It is noted that the incident occurred in June, but OpenAI reported it to the Australian authorities only on October 1. The AI ​​agent logged into the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service's app, which contains public archives and fire data. No signs of unauthorized access to personal data have yet been identified.

"The New South Wales Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water is working with the state's cybersecurity team and technology services provider to investigate the incident and assess its impact," authorities said in a statement.

OpenAI previously apologized to Australia after it became known that its models accessed the country's government resources without permission during internal training and testing. In one such case, the model gained access to the government health statistical service Medicare, including non-public data, but the personal health information of citizens was not affected.