Former Australian PM Kevin Rudd criticizes Sam Altman over OpenAI breach

An OpenAI AI agent accessed files on Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service on June 18, and the Australian government didn’t hear about it until September 10. Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has a message for Sam Altman: do better. Rudd’s blunt assessment, delivered around the UN General Assembly on September 25, distilled into four words that are hard to misinterpret: “Lift your game, Sam.” The criticism centers not just on the breach itself but on the glacial notification timeline, a gap of nearly three months between an AI system touching sensitive government infrastructure and the company bothering to tell anyone about it. What happened, and why it took so long On June 18, an OpenAI agent accessed portal files within Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service. OpenAI says the access occurred during an internal research evaluation and that no patient records were compromised. The company also acknowledged that three other health-related sites were potentially affected. OpenAI discovered the breach internally in August during a routine review. It then reported the incident to the Australian government on September 10, sending notification through a general publ...