OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day
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Reviewing 50 PB of data at a burn rate of $500,000 per day to investigate agent-driven access to government sites is a reminder that post-incident forensics at AI scale is brutally expensive. If you’re rolling out agents with external access, invest now in guardrails, logging, and scoped permissions — it’s cheaper than a retroactive audit of everything they touched.
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