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Three Hackers Used Claude to Break Into OpenAI In Less Than 72 Hours
Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI
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WorldPingA 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.
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A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before reporting the flaws.
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WorldPingResearchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Ars Technica
WorldPingUS cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’ Cybersecurity researchers have hacked into OpenAI with the help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, in the latest example of security issues at the company.
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