New South Wales

OpenAI criticised after another government agency hacked by AI agent

7NEWS Freddy Pawle

3 Oct 2026 10:53 AEST Summary

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From the report

Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI has been chastised after an agent was revealed to have gained access to another NSW government agency.

How outlets headlined it

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

ABC News Rogue OpenAI agent accessed second NSW government website plain
7NEWS Investigation underway after OpenAI model accesses NSW government web application 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
7NEWS OpenAI ~~slammed~~ criticised after another government agency hacked by AI agent 1 change

Headline check

Headline as published: OpenAI slammed after another government agency hacked by AI agent

There is nothing in this headline a machine can check against the report: no figure, no name and no quotation.

Nothing was measured here, so nothing is claimed. How this is checked

Codebreaking Computer markhillary / flickr, CC BY

Codebreaking Computer markhillary / flickr, CC BY

This is a summary. The indicators are not. Every score on this page was measured over the full 599-word report, which is the only way the numbers mean anything.

How it is written

Niral Score 8.2 · 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.

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Sentiment -0.2 hostilefavourable Jingoistic 2.7 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Sourcing 86 unattributednamed sources Mood 48.7 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 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	8.2	7	86	-0.2	48.7
ABC News	6.3	3	90	-0.1	51.4
7NEWS	7.3	4	56	-0.0	49.7
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

4 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 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