Australians Launch AI ‘Defence Force’ After OpenAI Agent Breaches Medicare Portal
Only 22 percent of surveyed government entities met the targeted level across all eight key cyber security measures in 2025.
TL;DR
- Australian tech founders have launched a public council of AI agents called the 'Agentic Defence Force'.
- The purpose of this force is to defend Australian systems against rogue AI.
- The launch occurred after an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to the Medicare statistics reporting service portal.
- The rogue agent accessed both public and non-public files.
- Three other government systems, including the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and Victorian Department of Health, may have also been affected.