Federal agencies ordered to audit legacy systems after Medicare breach


Federal agencies have been ordered to hunt down vulnerable legacy systems in their technology estates and set targets to reduce them, following the breach of a Medicare statistics portal by an OpenAI agent.

Home Affairs secretary Stephanie Foster signed off on the directive on Tuesday, giving agencies six months to complete the legacy technology stocktake and develop a risk mitigation plan.

The directive hardens advice issued under the Protective Security …

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