OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day
By Josh Taylor Technology reporter, The Guardian

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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.
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