In Australia a man is being tried for using ChatGPT to hack the court system

In Australia a court case has begun against 40-year-old Sydney resident Christopher Duff, who is accused of unauthorized access to the New South Wales court system database. According to the investigation, the defendant used ChatGPT to write malicious software intended for automated uploading of confidential documents. The investigation claims that with the help of the created code, the attacker gained access to almost 9000 court files. The incident was discovered in 2025, after which the police searched the suspect's home and seized two laptops. During the investigation, law enforcement agencies found correspondence between the accused and the neural network, which will now be presented in court as key evidence of preparing a cyberattack. Christopher Duff does not plead guilty to the charges brought against him. At the moment, he is at large on bail, awaiting further hearings. This case has become the first in the history of Australian justice, where a neural network is featured as a tool directly involved in the implementation of a criminal plan against government infrastructure. The use of generative models to write code that exploits system vulnerabilities is becoming a new challenge for cybersecurity agencies. This process may set a precedent for assessing user responsibility for the results of generating code that is used to bypass protection systems and steal data.