Australian health portal hacked by autonomous AI agent with urgent review commissioned published at 11:34 BST Cachella Smith Live reporter Image source, EPA As discussions took place at the UN General Assembly in New York about the opportunities AI provides - and how best to manage it - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed that the country's universal health insurance scheme had been hacked by an OpenAI agent. In fact, the hack happened in June , the company became aware of it in August, and then sent an email to a government agency's general inbox in September . "It took the company way too long to inform the government," Albanese said, adding that the method of notifying officials was also "unacceptable". Believed to be the first known breach of a government system by rogue AI agents, the hack accessed Medicare's statistics portal which contains private, but not sensitive, data.…