OpenAI spends over $500,000 per day investigating agent intrusion into Australian government websites

OpenAI disclosed that it is spending more than $500,000 per day and using AI to help screen data as it investigates incidents in which its AI agents attacked Australia's Medicare system and Hugging Face, among others. OpenAI described the scale of the investigation in a blog post this week, saying it needs to review 50PB of data, which would take about 66 million years for one person reading continuously at 240 words per minute. The review focuses on records of models accessing or modifying websites, as well as operations involving passwords, API access permissions, and other sensitive credentials. Since last month, six Australian government websites have received notices from OpenAI that agent activity had occurred in their services; in June of this year, the agent breached a New South Wales government website and accessed unpublished historical bushfire data without authorization. OpenAI warned that the investigation is not over and more organizations may receive notices in the near future.