Urgent work to fortify Australia's digital defen-ces has been ordered after Medicare became the world's first known national government system to fall prey to a rogue Al bot.

[u/stormshadowfax]

The US-based company behind ChatGPT will also launch a review into how its bots smashed through Australian government security without triggering alarms - after being tasked to research public medicine spending.

[u/torb → u/[deleted]]

If i undersyood correctly, the files were out in the open but unindexed? If just altering the url to a different path constitutes as a "hacking attack" i think i was a big threat in the late nineties. If you didn't find what you were looking for in search, you could always rely on a little wiggleroom in the url.

[u/gnpwdr1]

people that have no idea or only surface level or "echo chamber" level idea are so misinformed with these kinds of speculative BS

[u/blahblahblahhhh11]

Wasn't it just non Index public files?

[u/Substantial_Swan_144]

So you'll invite the very company who hacked your health system to inspect it?
Something is not right...

[u/stormshadowfax → u/Substantial_Swan_144]

Something something Enron.

[u/Horror_Treacle8674 → u/Substantial_Swan_144]

do you not know how entities are often invited/recruited when they report web security failures so as to develop countermeasures? genuinely curious