OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day

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Company says it is reviewing 50 petabytes of data after its agents accessed websites including Medicare without authorisation

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.

It is the sixth government website in Australia to be notified by the AI giant since last month of agent activity on their services, after the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, announced OpenAI’s agents had hacked into Services Australia’s Medicare statistics portal.

The reason for the delay compared to the revelation of the Medicare attack is due to the sheer volume of data OpenAI needs to