ShinyHunters claims it hacked the FBI and stole more than 2 TB of employee data – and this time it’s personal. The gang wants the Feds to correct the record on how it operates. “This is NOT financially motivated,” a Shiny spokesperson told The Register. “We want the FBI to correct or retract their statements...Read More
Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare in June and the tech giant notified the government earlier this month using an email sent to a “public mailbox”. Australia’s prime minister made the comments at the UN summit in New York, saying it appeared no personal information had been accessed in...Read More
Anthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare and three other systems in June – and the company only notified Australia earlier this month. The prime minister has expressed his “extreme concern” over the incident, although he noted no personal information is believed to have been accessed in the breach. Here’s...Read More
When OpenAI revealed this week that two of its AI models broke out of a locked-down test environment and hacked into another AI platform, Hugging Face, it sounded more science fiction than a technical report from a leading tech company. The models—one of which OpenAI said was not yet released to the public—exploited a previously...Read More
On a narrow country road outside Canberra, I’m driving a BYD Shark 6, the hybrid ute loved by tradies and even a cabinet minister. But while I’m at the wheel, I’m not the only one in control; a hacker has access to the car. As the 2.6 tonne ute rounds a bend, he gets to...Read More
Updated 10:48 6 Oct 2026 GMT+1Published 10:09 6 Oct 2026 GMT+1 Users of the mobile app suddenly received the notification on Tuesday morning which claimed it had been hacked ASOS shoppers were left stunned after receiving a chilling message on their phones on Tuesday (6 October). A message appeared on the screens of users of...Read More
ASOS has issued a new statement and explained exactly how millions of customers received an eerie ‘hack’ message earlier this week. A message appeared on the screens of users of the mobile application which read ‘ASOS HACKED’ on Tuesday morning (6 October). It then appeared to go on to threaten the owners of the app...Read More
OpenAI used AI to help write the email to the Australian government advising that its AI agent had hacked into key departmental websites, Guardian Australia can reveal. On Tuesday, one of the company’s executives told a parliamentary inquiry that he didn’t believe that its own technology had been used to create the email, but said...Read More
According to Charlotte Wilson, head of enterprise at global cyber-security firm Check Point, “the biggest immediate risk may be what happens next”. She says criminals know people will be searching for information online and expects there to be “attempts to exploit that confusion”. Her advice to Asos customers is not to be “scared and frightened”....Read More
LONDON – UK online fashion giant Asos said on Oct 6 it was investigating “unauthorised activity involving third-party platforms” after its customers received a phone alert saying the retailer had been hacked. Asos, which has 17 million active customers worldwide, said personal information like names and contact details “may have been accessed” but that it...Read More
