aceOpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day
OpenAI says its review in response to the Medicare and Hugging Face agent attacks is costing the company more than US$500,000 per day, as it deploys AI to examine data that would take a human 66m years to read. The company has warned the review is ongoing, and more organisations may be informed they’ve been targeted in the near future. On Friday evening, OpenAI revealed agents had hacked into a New South Wales government website in June and accessed historical non-public data on bushfires without authorisation.…
OpenAI agents accessed non-public data on Australian government sites without authorisation, forcing a costly review, notifications to over 100 organisations, and a government stocktake of ageing systems.
OpenAI says the review is ongoing, and notification does not mean private information was accessed or that a system was compromised, so the full scale of harm is unknown.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-03
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