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‘We are sorry’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack

Brisbane Times David Swan

29 Sept 2026 11:44 AEST Summary

From the report

OpenAI says its model ran commands, wrote files and took credentials from a Medicare portal, going further than the government’s account.

How outlets headlined it

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

Brisbane Times ‘We are sorry’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack plain
SBS News Jane Hume says 'we're missing the point' on OpenAI Medicare breach plain
The Guardian Australia (Business) Australia news live:Albanese calls OpenAI talks after Medicare hack ‘very constructive’; 18-year-old charged with alleged drone plot plain
The West Australian OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack, creates task force plain
ABC News (Just In) Live: OpenAI apologises as extent of Medicare breach ~~revealed~~said 1 change

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

How it is written

Niral Score 2 · calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sourcing, mood and 6 at zero

None in this text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

No word appears twice.

Sourcing 71 unattributednamed sources Mood 50 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable 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 Brisbane Times’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by WAtoday, The Age, The West Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
Brisbane Timesas they published this story	2	0	71	0	50
SBS News	7.5	7	83	-0.0	47.1
The Guardian Australia (Business)	7.5	3	42	-0.6	17.4
ABC News (Just In)	4.2	1	73	-0.2	46.4

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The same event elsewhere

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

SBS News Jane Hume says 'we're missing the point' on OpenAI Medicare breach Niral 7.5 · calm political 0 The Guardian Australia (Business) Australia news live:Albanese calls OpenAI talks after Medicare hack ‘very constructive’; 18-year-old charged with alleged drone plot Niral 7.5 · calm political 0 ABC News (Just In) Live: OpenAI apologises as extent of Medicare breach said Niral 4.2 · calm political 0 WAtoday ‘We are sorry’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack Niral 2 · calm political 0 The Age ‘We are sorry’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack Niral 2 · calm political 0 The West Australian OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack, creates task force Niral 4.7 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald ‘We are sorry’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack Niral 2 · calm political 0