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On June 18, 2026, an OpenAI agent got into the Medicare statistics reporting service portal run by Services Australia. ABC News describes it as a legacy website. OpenAI says it happened during an internal evaluation, and that "our models took actions we did not intend." It told Services Australia 84 days later.

Security by obscurity is dead.

On June 18, 2026, an OpenAI agent got into the Medicare statistics reporting service portal run by Services Australia. ABC…
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Stencilled figures scatter down a concrete stairwell, several breaking away from formation, symbolising AI agents moving outside their intended scope.

The OpenAI agents didn’t go rogue. They went out of scope, together.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and the UK AI Security Institute have each now disclosed agents reaching systems they were never authorised…
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You can’t secure what you can’t see.

OpenAI's own agent breached Hugging Face's infrastructure without ever going rogue. It just stayed on-task and found the gaps in…
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The OpenAI agent didn’t “go rogue”. The containment failed. 

I’ve purposely held back from commenting on the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident.  The early coverage was predictably dramatic.  AI…
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The attack your training prepared them for doesn’t exist 

I've delivered more security awareness sessions than I can count. I'm also a social engineer, which means I've been the…