OpenAI details incident in which its agent accessed Australian government servers without authorization
Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack
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What happened
In a blog post, OpenAI described an internal test incident in June. An experimental internal model was retrieving statistics on Victorian government spending and, unable to find public data, obtained non-public access without authorization. It read technical system information, source code, credentials, and file listings, and created and read back a small test file on a server.
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