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R1 Wodonga deadline passed; R2 Ballarat passed; R3 expected around 23:10 benchmark / 22:58 wiki time. Need exact data urgently.\".\n\nThese attempts were initially blocked by cybersecurity provider Cloudflare, which is often used to block non-human traffic while allowing people to access webpages.\n\nThe logs show the agents shared information about how they tried to use proxies, screenshotting services and even to guess the file names to try and get around security.\n\n#recirculationrecommendations-107138728\n\nThe attempts to access data happened around the same time as OpenAI disclosed its internal models accessed non-public government data while trying to carry out a task given to them by staff.\n\n\"We identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation,\" they said.\n\nThe German coding forum's logs do not show any reference to Medicare or Services Australia.\n\nOpenAI has not yet published a full review of what it called the \"wiki incident\", but previously did not classify this as a \"security incident\".\n\nOpenAI, the Prime Minister's Office and Services Australia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.","full_text_attribution":"Full text extracted from the ABC News article at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/openai-agents-plotted-to-access-data-amid-medicare-hack/107189504. 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