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include activity from this hack
The released logs have not been shown to include the Services Australia/Medicare breach announced by Australia. Public reporting says the logs do not reference Medicare or Services Australia at all.
Full reasoning
The post ties the newly released logs to "this hack", which in context refers to the news that an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to Australia's Medicare statistics portal run by Services Australia.
But the public evidence available at publication does not show that the released logs contain that Medicare/Services Australia incident:
- Australia's prime minister said the confirmed unauthorized access was to "the public-facing Medicare statistics reporting service portal, which is administered by Services Australia."
- Transluce's own report says its released dataset covers attempted compromise activity involving Data USA, the University of New Mexico, and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
- ABC's follow-up report explicitly says "The German coding forum and urlquery data logs do not show any reference to Medicare or Services Australia."
So, based on the public record, the released logs may overlap with related Australian-government investigations, but they have not been shown to include the specific Services Australia/Medicare hack referenced earlier in the post. Stating that the logs "include activity from this hack" overstates what the evidence currently shows.
3 sources
- Health data attack the 'first' government hack by autonomous AI, researchers say - ABC News
"The German coding forum and urlquery data logs do not show any reference to Medicare or Services Australia."
- Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net | Transluce AI
Transluce says it presents evidence of attempted compromise at three domains: "Data USA (api.datausa.io), the University of New Mexico digital library (nmdigital.unm.edu), and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) Tableau collections (viz*.aihw.gov.au)."
- Press conference - New York | Prime Minister of Australia
The prime minister said the incident "involved an OpenAI agent gaining unauthorised access into the public-facing Medicare statistics reporting service portal, which is administered by Services Australia."