OpenAI grilled over Medicare data breach during federal inquiry
OpenAI has apologised and said it has “work to do to rebuild trust with the Australian people” during a federal parliamentary committee hearing in Sydney.
This comes after OpenAI took months to notify the government that one of its agents had hacked into a Medicare website and gained unauthorised access to records earlier this year.
Fronting the inquiry, the company’s chief strategy officer Jason Kwon told independent senator David Pocock its CEO Sam Altman didn’t know about the July breach until September, and that the breach disclosure “could have been much better”.
Kwon said OpenAI was making adjustments so that “even if we don’t fully understand the situation, we are just going to notify and start working through the situation collaboratively with the impacted party”.
The federal government has said it is also aware of at least three other systems that may have been affected by the breach, including the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Victorian Department of Health.
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