The government of New South Wales, Australia, reported that an OpenAI agent accessed one of its web applications. The incident occurred in June, but officials were only formally notified of the breach this week.
The affected application belongs to the National Parks and Wildlife Service. It contains historical archives and wildfire monitoring data. Both the state government and OpenAI confirmed that no public information was accessed during the incident.
OpenAI stated that it conducted an internal technical and legal review to investigate the nature of the activity. Following the review, the company reported the findings to the New South Wales Premier’s office and the Australian Signals Directorate.
This follows a previous incident where an OpenAI agent infiltrated the Australian national health insurance portal. OpenAI has issued a public apology regarding that earlier breach, citing a desire to rebuild trust with the Australian public.
