NSW crime statistics bureau closes its review: no flaw in its Crime Mapping Tool
After OpenAI flagged a potential vulnerability in its Crime Mapping Tool, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) said on September 24 that the dataset is public aggregate statistics with no personal information, with no evidence of exploitation; on October 20 it closed its investigation.
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A September 25 update said investigations had found no security vulnerability in the tool and no access beyond what the tool already makes public. Closing the investigation on October 20, BOCSAR said it found no evidence of a data breach, no evidence of unauthorized access to the underlying dataset, no security vulnerability in the tool, and no need for any changes or remediation. OpenAI’s Australia page says its model made API and website metadata requests through the public tool and got back application configuration, operational jobs and logs, and website metadata; BOCSAR’s findings address the underlying dataset and the tool itself.
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