OpenAI agents hacked Australian Medicare system
jumploops
50 points
12 comments
September 23, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
_doctor_love
The title should strike the word "agents" from the title. If OpenAI hacked someone, who cares if it was an agent or a human actor. They're accountable for what their software does.
ChrisArchitect
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822556
koliber
This is a failure of journalism. Who hacked into the Australian Medicare system? The fact that they used OpenAI agents is peripheral to the main story. “Remington guns caused a mass shooting at an East Farmington high school” sounds more glaring, and is essentially the same headline.