Ryan Fedasiuk: first publicly confirmed agent hack of a sovereign government's web infrastructure
Ryan Fedasiuk @ryanfedasiuk · x · 2026-09-23 · ★★ · archived
Widely quoted framing of the Medicare breach (6.5K views; cited by Techmeme).
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First publicly confirmed incident of an agent hacking web infrastructure owned by a sovereign government.
It’s not clear from this clip of the PM’s comments whether this was a fully autonomous “swarm” event, or an example of deliberate (human-driven) misuse.
Quoting @AndrewCurran_: Australia has been hacked.
'And today, I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia's extreme concern about this incident. And I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred, and the nature https://t.co/cPVr99p1wL
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First publicly confirmed incident of an agent hacking web infrastructure owned by a sovereign government.
It’s not clear from this clip of the PM’s comments whether this was a fully autonomous “swarm” event, or an example of deliberate (human-driven) misuse.
Quoting @AndrewCurran_: Australia has been hacked.
'And today, I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia's extreme concern about this incident. And I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred, and the nature https://t.co/cPVr99p1wL
likes 55 · replies 10 (at fetch time)
Archived 2026-09-29 via syndication.
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