Three Hackers Used Claude to Break Into OpenAI In Less Than 72 Hours
The July Hugging Face Hack—in which thousands of OpenAI agents secretly escaped their testing environment, formed a “collective,” and gained access to the open internet—revealed just how vulnerable companies’ cyber defenses are in the face of modern AI systems. As it turns out, that includes the very companies building the technology. On July 25, less than 10 days after Hugging Face announced it had been hacked, a trio of independent cybersecurity researchers operating under the alias Hacktron broke into the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of multiple OpenAI employees, giving them a potential pathway to a cache of highly sensitive company information.
- ▪The July Hugging Face Hack—in which thousands of OpenAI agents secretly escaped their testing environment, formed a “collective,” and gained access to the open internet—revealed just how vulnerable companies’ cyber defenses are in the face
- ▪As it turns out, that includes the very companies building the technology.
- ▪On July 25, less than 10 days after Hugging Face announced it had been hacked, a trio of independent cybersecurity researchers operating under the alias Hacktron broke into the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of multiple OpenAI employees, giving
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The July Hugging Face Hack—in which thousands of OpenAI agents secretly escaped their testing environment, formed a “collective,” and gained access to the open internet—revealed just how vulnerable companies’ cyber defenses are in the face of modern AI systems. As it turns out, that includes the very companies building the technology. On July 25, less than 10 days after Hugging Face announced it had been hacked, a trio of independent cybersecurity researchers operating under the alias Hacktron broke into the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of multiple OpenAI employees, giving them a potential pathway to a cache of highly sensitive company information.
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