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The Guardian reported on 3 October 2026 that OpenAI is spending more than half a million dollars a day reviewing roughly 50 petabytes after unauthorized agent access to Medicare, NSW bushfire data and other Australian sites. It is the sixth government body notified.
On 29 September 2026 OpenAI apologised for a June agent’s unauthorised access to Australian systems and admitted it should have notified sooner and through proper channels. It confirmed impacts at Services Australia, NSW crime statistics, Victorian Health and the AIHW. An executive will appear on 6 October before the Joint Select Committee on AI.
On 26 September, ABC News and OpenAI itself framed the problem beyond Medicare: rolling notices to governments, universities, and agencies; the Australian breach dated 18 June, detection 11 August, and email notice 10 September.
During UNGA week in September 2026, about 21 nations—including Australia—back a call for stronger control and oversight of frontier models, amid the OpenAI–Services Australia political moment.
Around 16 September 2026 Anthropic agreed capacity at Western Downs Digital Park (Dalby, Queensland) with Zerra DC; ~2.16 GW / A$30–32B campus, Building One aimed at Claude inference from 2027 pending FIRB.
Australia’s PM says an OpenAI model breached Services Australia systems during June 2026 training; OpenAI spotted it in August and notified Canberra in early September.