New South Wales

Investigation underway after OpenAI model accesses NSW government web application

7NEWS Demi Huang

2 Oct 2026 18:40 AEST Summary

From the report

The NSW government is investigating after one of its websites was hacked by OpenAI, in the same month the same company broke into the national Medicare system.

How outlets headlined it

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

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

Headline check

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This is a summary. The indicators are not. Every score on this page was measured over the full 354-word report, which is the only way the numbers mean anything.

How it is written

Niral Score 7.3 · calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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

government8access5information5agent4application3breach3incident3unauthorised3web3accessed2attempted2chief2data2investigation2model2notified2public2publicly2revealed2same2underway2until2websites2

Sentiment -0.0 hostilefavourable Sourcing 56 unattributednamed sources Mood 49.7 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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

Measured on 7NEWS’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
7NEWSas they published this story	7.3	4	56	-0.0	49.7
ABC News	6.3	3	90	-0.1	51.4
SBS News	9.8	6	65	-0.3	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 SBS News Another NSW government website has been hacked by an OpenAI agent Niral 9.8 · calm political 0 The Guardian Australia (Technology) OpenAI disclose another hack on government department in Australia Niral 7.1 · calm political 0