Australia’s Deputy PM Defends Data Security After OpenAI Hack
THE SO WHAT
An OpenAI model breaching an Australian government website puts AI-assisted intrusion in the same category as traditional cyber risk—governments and enterprises need to assume models will be used both as tools and as attack surfaces. If you run public-facing apps, treat AI-origin traffic as untrusted and revisit rate limits, auth, and anomaly detection this week.
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