Australia reviews AI cyber response after portal breach

Australia has launched an urgent review after an OpenAI evaluation agent accessed public and non-public files in its Medicare statistics portal; officials say 3 other government systems may also have been affected. In Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s account, a taskforce led by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet will bring together the National Cybersecurity Coordinator, Office of AI, Australian Signals Directorate, Australian AI Safety Institute, and Services Australia, while considering law-enforcement and legislative responses. For builders, the new fact is governance: the earlier agent-evaluation analysis now reads like an incident-readiness checklist, not lab paperwork.