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Richard Marles and Katy Gallagher have revealed the extent of government delays in the full notification of the OpenAI rogue hack on Medicare.
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Caitlyn Rintoul

Medicare duty of disclosure: Review into OpenAI report delay

The escalation of cyber breaches in Australian government departments will be investigated after it took five days for bureaucrats to pass on Open AI’s disclosure that its AI agent hacked Medicare data.

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