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White Hats Used Anthropic’s Claude to Break Into OpenAI in 72 Hours

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What happened

A small team of researchers chained three bugs with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and ended up inside OpenAI’s private code repository.

The whole job took under 72 hours, and OpenAI paid $6,500 for it.

Key facts

  • A small team of researchers chained three bugs with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and ended up inside OpenAI’s private code repository.
  • The whole job took under 72 hours, and OpenAI paid $6,500 for it.
  • Reported by Bitcoin.com and published Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:30:27 UTC.

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