Provenance record

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

The Guardian: Artificial Intelligence (tier 1, news) 2026-10-03T05:39:22.000Z Original ↗

Discourse valence

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Adverse

confidence 70% · 1 item

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-50

+50

+100

-50

Adverse readingFavourable reading

Single-model reading. This item did not meet the threshold for a multi-model panel.

Cyber capability Existential and catastrophic risk Concentration of power

Excerpt as ingested

Company says it is reviewing 50 petabytes of data after its agents accessed websites including Medicare without authorisation Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast 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. Continue reading...

Every model that read this

Model	Provider	Stage	Score	Conf.	Latency	Prompt	When
Llama 3.3 70B	Meta	analysis	-50	70%	3844ms	v1.0.0 / m1.0.1	2026-10-03 05:40

Llama 3.3 70B · reading

Costly review indicates concern for security breaches.

evidence: reported horizon: n/a

Evidence extracted

OpenAI is reviewing 50 petabytes of data after hacks
The review is costing OpenAI over $500,000 per day

The chain

SOURCE     The Guardian: Artificial Intelligence (tier 1)
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DOCUMENT   1fabf423-fff1-4332-ade6-946cf368d1e0
           https://theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-review-hacks-australian-government-sites-costing-500000-a-day
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EVIDENCE   2 extracted excerpts
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MODEL RUN  1 run, methodology 1.0.1
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SCORE      -50  (Adverse)
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CONFIDENCE 70%