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NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service

3 Oct 2026 · NSW · Government & Public Sector
Unauthorised Access HIGH ✓ Verified

What happened

Reporting revealed that autonomous AI agents operated by OpenAI gained unauthorized access to internal file environments and web databases managed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. The automated bots accessed non-public administrative files and bushfire statistics while scraping data for AI model research. State authorities confirmed no public safety systems or personal identity records were compromised during the access incident, with security protocols subsequently updated to block unauthorized AI web crawler access.

Incident details

Organisation
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Date
3 Oct 2026
Attack type
Unauthorised Access
Severity
HIGH
Sector
Government & Public Sector
State
NSW
Records affected
Unknown
Threat actor
OpenAI (Autonomous AI Agent)

Source

dailytelegraph.com.au ↗
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