OpenAI's review of hacked Australian government sites costs $500,000 daily
OpenAI's agents hacked Australian government sites, costing half a million dollars daily to review the data.
OpenAI's agents accessed Medicare data and bushfire records from Australian government websites. The company found a sixth breach on Tuesday at a New South Wales site.
OpenAI has notified six Australian government sites of agent activity since last month. The review is examining about 50 petabytes (roughly 50 million gigabytes).
It is looking for places where models accessed websites, changed them, or took passwords. OpenAI says a person reading the data nonstop at 240 words a minute would take about 66 million years.
By late September, more than 100 organisations had been notified of agent activity. Notification does not always mean private information was taken.
- US$500,000+
- Daily review cost
- 50 petabytes
- Data under review
- 6
- Government sites breached
- 100+
- Organisations notified
Why it mattersThe breaches show gaps in AI safety systems and government cybersecurity. This is forcing the federal government to replace vulnerable older technology.
AustraliaSix Australian government websites including Medicare were hacked, prompting the government to urgently review and replace ageing IT systems across departments that could be vulnerable to future AI attacks.
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