Sep 26, 2026 · 16 min · 9 segments
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had a lot to say at the United Nations General Assembly this week about artificial intelligence. But the showstopper was his revelation that OpenAI agents had breached…
Justin HendryHost
James RileyHost
He sort of dropped it sort of as everyone was waking up here in Australia, just in time [chuckles] to catch the breakfast news, and it basically ran all day.
It's a standalone website that holds statistics on basically health expenditure in Australia.
It was part of a couple of different sites that were hit, including Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and there was a Victorian Health Department website as well there, a New South Wales website.
But they were all basically just public data that was accessed, so nothing particularly nefarious.
But I think the, the real kicker is the fact that OpenAI took quite as long as it did to inform the government.
This took place in June, and then they took basically a month between August and September to inform the government.
That then went up the chain as it does in government and came out yesterday, about a week and a half, two weeks later.
So it's been fascinating to watch this, and there's obviously a lot of questions still to be answered.
ASD is investigating whether there's been wider breaches of government systems elsewhere across Canberra, and there's a lot to burn still.
He sort of dropped it sort of as everyone was waking up here in Australia, just in time [chuckles] to catch the breakfast news, and it basically ran all day.
It's a standalone website that holds statistics on basically health expenditure in Australia.
It was part of a couple of different sites that were hit, including Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and there was a Victorian Health Department website as well there, a New South Wales website.
But they were all basically just public data that was accessed, so nothing particularly nefarious.
But I think the, the real kicker is the fact that OpenAI took quite as long as it did to inform the government.
This took place in June, and then they took basically a month between August and September to inform the government.
That then went up the chain as it does in government and came out yesterday, about a week and a half, two weeks later.
So it's been fascinating to watch this, and there's obviously a lot of questions still to be answered.
ASD is investigating whether there's been wider breaches of government systems elsewhere across Canberra, and there's a lot to burn still.
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