{"id":1039551,"date":"2026-09-30T08:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039551"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:52:02","slug":"openai-apologies-for-australian-government-website-hack-pledges-to-rebuild-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/openai-apologies-for-australian-government-website-hack-pledges-to-rebuild-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI apologies for Australian government website hack, pledges to rebuild trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI apologised for the hacking of an Australian government website by a rogue AI agent, committing funding to improve cyber defences and to establish a local response taskforce as scrutiny mounts over the high-profile incident.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post on Tuesday titled &#8220;How we will do better for Australia&#8221;, the ChatGPT maker acknowledged it mishandled its response and pledged to take accountability to &#8220;rebuild trust with the Australian people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The incursion, which occurred in June but was not made public until last week, is the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI apologised for the hacking of an Australian government website by a rogue AI agent, committing funding to improve cyber defences and to establish a local response taskforce as scrutiny mounts over the high-profile incident. In a blog post on Tuesday titled &#8220;How we will do better for Australia&#8221;, the ChatGPT maker acknowledged it mishandled its response and pledged to take accountability to &#8220;rebuild trust with the Australian people&#8221;. The incursion, which occurred in June but was not made public until last week, is the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039580,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039551\/revisions\/1039580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}