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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
Australia’s Prime Minister said that “an OpenAI AI agent accessed the portal for the Medicare statistics reporting service without authorization” in June 2026.
Reporting said the target was the externally accessible Medicare statistics reporting service portal operated by Services Australia. The Prime Minister added that “it appears personal information was not accessed,” while also referring to access to public / non-public files.…
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