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Government agencies will need to fortify their cybersecurity defences to guard against future attacks. Government agencies will need to fortify their cybersecurity defences to guard against future attacks. Home affairs department orders all federal government agencies to conduct review of'legacy technology' amid fallout from AI agent hacks Fri 2 Oct 2026 11.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 2 Oct 2026 11.02 EDT The Australian government faces significant "tech debt" that could bring a big bill for taxpayers after the OpenAI Medicare breach, as government agencies will need to fortify their defences against future attacks by AI agents. This week, the home affairs department ordered all federal government agencies to conduct a "legacy technology stocktake" that requires a plan for each agency to "reduce legacy technology systems" to a level within the agency's risk tolerance and appetite, the direction stated. OpenAI this week revealed an internal agent had gained non-public access to the Services Australia Medicare statistics portal during a training task seeking information on government spending on skin conditions in Victoria.

Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir's Mess A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration. Over the past four months, Amber Retzloff, a critical care nurse in Florida, requested to work 50 specific 12-hour shifts. But over half the time, she says her hospital's Palantir -powered scheduling software assigned her to different shifts, often putting her on back-to-back-to-back days and leaving her mentally drained. Retzloff doesn't expect to always get the slots she wants, but by her count the tool does a far worse job honoring her preferences than managers did when they assigned shifts by hand. Retzloff's experience mirrors that of other nurses across HCA Healthcare, the largest hospital chain in the US.

The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past. John Goldman had not seen a case of measles in 30 years. But since April, the infectious disease specialist with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in central Pennsylvania has had dozens of patients come down with the disease. "I never thought I would see this come back," he says. His health system, like others, has had to adapt to a new normal as measles makes a comeback in the United States.

Son who used AI to help save mum's life hopes case offers Parkinson's clues Image caption, Ed Patrick and his mother, Ann, who has Parkinson's Disease, and father John An NHS doctor who says he saved his mum's life with the help of AI hopes what he learned can help others with Parkinson's Disease complications. Ed Patrick, an anaesthetist from Oxfordshire, was at his mother's bedside in hospital ready to say his goodbyes after she began suffering serious and continuous seizures. Using AI to scour recent medical journal articles, he said he identified a vitamin deficiency linked to her Parkinson's medication as a possible cause, and staff then gave her a vitamin dose that appeared to stop the seizures. Doctors say clinical trials are needed to understand more - and warn against patients making changes to their own medication without medical advice. Charity Parkinson's UK welcomed the prospect of more research trials in light of this case and said it could transform care for some others with Parkinson's. In May this year Patrick said hospital staff called to say his mother, Ann, was close to death, after she had been deteriorating over several months.

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Anthony Albanese (left) challenged the OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, after the company's agent infiltrated systems run by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Victoria's Department of Health, the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Medicare statistics reporting service portal of Services Australia. Anthony Albanese (left) challenged the OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, after the company's agent infiltrated systems run by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Victoria's Department of Health, the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Medicare statistics reporting service portal of Services Australia. AI hack of Medicare exposes Australia's vulnerabilities and experts warn'there is more of this to come' Technology experts have warned revelations an artificial intelligence agent hacked Medicare's internal systems will not be the only dangerous breach of government data and have called for Australia to boost its protections against the growing risk. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, challenged the OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, on Thursday after the company's agent infiltrated systems run by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Victoria's Department of Health, the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Medicare statistics reporting service portal of Services Australia. OpenAI alerted the government earlier this month to the June hacking via an email to a public-facing address, a situation Albanese called "obviously unacceptable".

The country's prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law. Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal, in the first widely known incident of an AI agent hacking a government website. The Australian government is reviewing whether it should involve the federal police after the agent accessed non-public files from the social and health services agency, Services Australia, in June. Australia only found out about the incident when OpenAI alerted the government on September 10-almost three months after the hack-by sending an email to a public mailbox.

Share How an OpenAI'agent' hacked Australia's Medicare and what that means on social media Australian authorities have raised the alarm after OpenAI-powered models hacked into a government health data system in June, slipping past its digital defences and accessing files without authorisation. This is the first publicly known case of artificial intelligence (AI) "agents" - AI-powered software systems that can carry out tasks autonomously - breaking into a government website, and the latest of several AI breaches of external systems. Global powers must cooperate to ensure this, they have said. A research scientist at AI firm Anthropic, Evan Hubinger, went so far as to say he believes there is a greater than 10 percent chance AI could "kill all humans" within a decade. Addressing the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there is a risk of AI moving "so fast that people can no longer follow what's happening or intervene when needed".