OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
An OpenAI booth at the Dreamforce technology summit in San Francisco on Thursday. Photograph: Carlos Barría/ReutersView image in fullscreenAn OpenAI booth at the Dreamforce technology summit in San Francisco on Thursday. They then made a harmless “pull request” – an attempt to change the code in a file – to OpenAI’s service on the GitHub software repository.Hacktron reported the hack to OpenAI, having carried out the probe under an OpenAI programme that rewarded ethical hackers for testing its systems.
- ▪An OpenAI booth at the Dreamforce technology summit in San Francisco on Thursday.
- ▪Photograph: Carlos Barría/ReutersView image in fullscreenAn OpenAI booth at the Dreamforce technology summit in San Francisco on Thursday.
- ▪They then made a harmless “pull request” – an attempt to change the code in a file – to OpenAI’s service on the GitHub software repository.Hacktron reported the hack to OpenAI, having carried out the probe under an OpenAI programme that rew
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An OpenAI booth at the Dreamforce technology summit in San Francisco on Thursday. Photograph: Carlos Barría/ReutersView image in fullscreenAn OpenAI booth at the Dreamforce technology summit in San Francisco on Thursday. Photograph: Carlos Barría/ReutersOpenAIOpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbotUS cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’Dan Milmo Global technology editorFri 18 Sep 2026 07.20 EDTLast modified on Fri 18 Sep 2026 07.24 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleCybersecurity 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 multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT…
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