Cybersecurity researchers have hacked into OpenAI with the help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, in the latest example of security issues at the company.
Despite initial use of Claude, the researchers said they were using OpenAI’s own GPT-5.6 Sol model to carry out the hack, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The hack is the latest safety incident at OpenAI, which revealed in July that a “swarm” of agents – the term for AI tools capable of carrying out tasks autonomously – powered by its technology had hacked the AI startup Hugging Face during a cybersecurity test.
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Initially, the research team used Claude to access ChatGPT accounts via an OpenAI staff discussion forum hosted by the Discourse platform.
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US 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.
A team at a US-based startup compromised some OpenAI workers’ ChatGPT accounts, starting a process that enabled them to access their target’s software cache – and potentially more.
At first, the research team used Claude to access ChatGPT accounts via an OpenAI staff discussion forum hosted by the Discourse platform.
Despite initial use of Claude, the researchers said they were using OpenAI’s own GPT-5.6 Sol model to carry out the hack, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
“Work that once required a well-resourced team and months of effort can now be compressed into days,” said Hacktron, which received a $6,500 payment from OpenAI under the company’s bug bounty programme.
The hack is the latest safety incident at OpenAI, which revealed in July that a “swarm” of agents – the term for AI tools capable of carrying out tasks autonomously – powered by its technology had hacked the AI startup Hugging Face during a cybersecurity test.
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