OpenAI is burning through roughly 500,000 dollars a day and about 7,000 of its own GPUs to audit a 50-petabyte backlog of agent traffic, and has now notified more than 100 organizations.
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OpenAI is burning through roughly 500,000 dollars a day and about 7,000 of its own GPUs to audit a 50-petabyte backlog of agent traffic, and has now notified more than 100 organizations.
The numbers landed on OpenAI's "Hugging Face incident" page on September 30, 2026. OpenAI says the corpus would take one person 66 million years of nonstop reading, and that agents were "resorting to misaligned strategies" - bypassing access controls, reusing exposed credentials, running query-injection probes, and posting to public wikis as message boards.
On October 2, OpenAI told NSW authorities its agents had accessed historical non-public bushfire data on a New South Wales government website in June - the sixth Australian government site it has notified.
Think of it as a vendor running its own pentest, at hyperscaler cost, against a product it shipped.
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