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Oct 14, 2026
Hassam El-GhadbanCORRESPONDENT
And Medicare was not the only government system involved.
Hassam El-GhadbanCORRESPONDENT
OpenAI has also disclosed that an experimental model accessed non-public bushfire statistics through a New South Wales government application operated by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Hassam El-GhadbanCORRESPONDENT
Both incidents have raised questions about how to control increasingly autonomous AI systems that can retrieve information and make decisions without constant human supervision.
Hassam El-GhadbanCORRESPONDENT
Dominic Moore from the Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy believes updating Australia's existing regulatory frameworks is essential.
Rich StroffolinoHOST
Kwon says OpenAI now alerts staff when it detects its models use the internet during training that falls outside of guardrails.
Rich StroffolinoHOST
OpenAI's new policy will be to alert governments as soon as it detects issues rather than waiting to establish more facts, pointing to recent disclosures of breaches on NSW Parks and Wildlife last week.
Rich StroffolinoHOST
He further said that CEO Sam Altman did not know about the breach when he met with Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles on September 1st, despite the breach being known within OpenAI several weeks prior.
Rich StroffolinoHOST
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Rich StroffolinoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Kwan says OpenAI now alerts staff when it detects its models use the internet during training that falls outside of guardrails.
Rich StroffolinoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
OpenAI's new policy will be to alert governments as soon as it detects issues rather than waiting to establish more facts, pointing to recent disclosures of breaches on NSW Parks and Wildlife last week.
Rich StroffolinoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He further said that CEO Sam Altman did not know about the breach when he met with Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles on September 1st, despite the breach being known within OpenAI several weeks prior.
Daniel LowryHOST
All right.
Daniel LowryHOST
I'm responsible for that.
Daniel LowryHOST
How is OpenAI and Anthropic and all these companies that their AI agents have hacked things legitimately? How are they not being held feet to the fire on this? Right? I mean, at the very least, get yourself a scapegoat, throw them under the bus, and that's normally...
Daniel LowryHOST
Anyway, anyway, he said the company identified the NSW Parks and Wildlife breach last week and reported the same government much sooner.
Daniel LowryHOST
I'm glad you learned in your lesson.
Jeannie PattersonGUEST
So all you need is to intend the act that is the trespass.
Damien CarrickHOST
And Rob, just last Friday, it became apparent that OpenAI said that it had also hacked into the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, which contains data about fires in New South Wales.
Damien CarrickHOST
What do we know about that breach?
Rob NichollsGUEST
Essentially, it's all part of a very similar breach.
Nairi PakaiHOST
Questions are being asked about Australian cyber security after another rogue AI agent accessed a NSW government website.
Nairi PakaiHOST
A NSW government statement released on Friday night says an open AI model accessed a National Parks and Wildlife Service web application in June containing historical information and data on fires.
Nairi PakaiHOST
It's understood no personal information was accessed.
Nairi PakaiHOST
Cyber safety expert Susan McLean told Channel 7 that she's concerned that AI agents are smarter than the defence system government agencies have in place.
Nairi PakaiHOST
Questions are being asked about Australian cybersecurity after another rogue AI agent accessed a New South Wales government website.
Nairi PakaiHOST
A New South Wales government statement released on Friday night says an open AI model accessed a National Parks and Wildlife Service web application in June containing historical information and data on fires.
Nairi PakaiHOST
It's understood no personal information was accessed.
Nairi PakaiHOST
Cyber safety expert Susan McLean told Channel Seven that she's concerned that AI agents are smarter than the defense system government agencies have in place.
Harry ShearerHOST
The New South Wales Department of Climate Change, Energy and the Environment and Water is now working with the state cyber agency to investigate the breach.
Harry ShearerHOST
The Australian Signals Directorate has also been informed of the hack on the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service's The chat bomb wanted to be friends with animals? No.
Harry ShearerHOST
OpenAI told the New South Wales government that its agent had operated beyond its intended use, and the statistics it obtained were not publicly available.
Harry ShearerHOST
The company first became aware of the breach on Tuesday, they say, and conducted a 48-hour review to determine its scope before informing the New South Wales Premier's Office.
AliceHOST
Overnight's new geography inside the same country is New South Wales Parks.
AliceHOST
OpenAI and the NSW Premier's department say a model went beyond its intended use on a National Parks and Wildlife Service web application that holds historical wildfire statistics and records of fires set on purpose to clear fuel.
AliceHOST
The touch was in June.
AliceHOST
The government was told this week after OpenAI finished an internal review.
Tamsin GreenHOST
A rogue open AI agent has hacked a second New South Wales government website.
Tamsin GreenHOST
The incident took place in June when an AI agent entered the state's National Parks and Wildlife Service's site, accessing bushfire statistics.
Tamsin GreenHOST
No personal information was obtained.
Tamsin GreenHOST
In a statement to News24, OpenAI says, As part of our ongoing review of misaligned model activity, we found that a model researching public Australian wildfire statistics queried the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service's Fire History Service in a way that went beyond its intended use.
Tamsin GreenHOST
A Western Australian man has faced court after allegedly allowing a child to operate a four-wheel drive on a public road.
Tamsin GreenHOST
The dangerous stunt was filmed for social media by the 30-year-old.
Eleanor QuirkHOST
A rogue OpenAI agent has hacked into another Australian government agency.
Eleanor QuirkHOST
The tech giant confirming the site of New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service was breached back in June, the same month that OpenAI accessed federal government sites, including Medicare.
Eleanor QuirkHOST
And a leading Catholic school in Sydney has launched an investigation after AI images of a teacher appeared on adult site OnlyFans.
Eleanor QuirkHOST
The images of the female staff member have reportedly been circulated among students at Sutherland St. Patrick's College.
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