New South Wales

Another NSW government website has been hacked by an OpenAI agent

SBS News

2 Oct 2026 19:28 AEST Summary

From the report

The NSW premier's department on Friday said it had been informed by OpenAI, the tech company behind ChatGPT.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

SBS News Another NSW government website has been hacked by an OpenAI agent plain
ABC News Rogue OpenAI agent accessed second NSW government website plain
7NEWS Investigation underway after OpenAI model accesses NSW government web application plain
The Guardian Australia (Technology) OpenAI disclose another hack on government department in Australia plain

Headline check

All two things this headline claims are in the report.

Figures, names and quoted words in the headline, looked for in the report itself — not in the summary above. How this is checked

This is a summary. The indicators are not. Every score on this page was measured over the full 619-word report, which is the only way the numbers mean anything.

How it is written

Niral Score 9.8 · calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, jingoistic and 2 more and 4 at zero

Highlighted in the text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

data13government12breach6information5national5security5commissioner4cyber4departments4spencer4approach3breaches3catalogue3datasets3office3spokesperson3systems3tech3accessed2agent2application2cannot2companies2company2concerns2identified2occurred2prevent2registration2technology2until2upload2web2work2working2

Sentiment -0.3 hostilefavourable Jingoistic 2.6 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Sourcing 65 unattributednamed sources Mood 49.7 sorrowjoyful

4 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Religious 0 not invokedovert

How the article is written, not whether it is correct. How each is measured.

Measured on SBS News’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How each outlet filed it

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
SBS Newsas they published this story	9.8	6	65	-0.3	49.7
ABC News	6.3	3	90	-0.1	51.4
7NEWS	7.3	4	56	-0.0	49.7
The Guardian Australia (Technology)	7.1	7	81	-0.3	50

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The same event elsewhere

3 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

ABC News Rogue OpenAI agent accessed second NSW government website Niral 6.3 · calm political 0 7NEWS Investigation underway after OpenAI model accesses NSW government web application Niral 7.3 · calm political 0 The Guardian Australia (Technology) OpenAI disclose another hack on government department in Australia Niral 7.1 · calm political 0