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Three Hackers Used Claude to Break Into OpenAI In Less Than 72 Hours
Things could've gone a whole lot worse if they'd actually meant the company harm.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Gizmodo
White Hats Used Anthropic’s Claude to Break Into OpenAI in 72 Hours
WorldPingWhat 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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