OpenAI Hacked by Researchers Using Claude
Hacktron said the exploit chain let three researchers reach OpenAI’s internal GitHub environment after a forum flaw and identity issue, and OpenAI paid a $6,500 bounty.
- Security startup Hacktron disclosed this week that it used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to compromise an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account by exploiting a vulnerability in the company's community forum.
- Researchers discovered a heap buffer overflow in the forum's libheif image-processing software, which they developed into a functional exploit chain using Claude Opus 5 in less than 72 hours, according to Hacktron.
- After gaining forum access, the team exploited an identity flaw to compromise an employee's Codex account, then used it to generate a benign pull request within OpenAI's internal GitHub repository.
- OpenAI patched the community forum, revoked affected sessions, and paid Hacktron a $6,500 bounty, though the company has not published a detailed account of the incident.
- CEO Zayne Zhang of Hacktron noted that "the worlds of AI safety and cybersecurity are converging," highlighting how AI agents with broad credential access create new attack surfaces across internal infrastructure.
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Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI
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. They were able to access OpenAI's GitHub repository, called "Monorepo," which reportedly contains "OpenAI's algorithmic secrets," according to the […]
Researchers from the Hacktron AI start-up accessed the ChatGPT accounts of OpenAI employees using an artificial intelligence (IA) model from Anthropic.
WITH THE HELP of the Claude chatbot, researchers broke into OpenAI's systems, proving that artificial intelligence significantly speeds up and facilitates hacking attacks.
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