Scams & Fraud · September 2026
Hackers Used Anthropic's Claude to Break Into OpenAI
Three bug-bounty researchers had Claude write exploit code for a flaw in OpenAI's Discourse forum, and within two days they were reading files in Monorepo, the company's private stash of algorithmic secrets. OpenAI paid them $6,500 for the tour, revoked the tokens, and reassigned a quarter of its production engineers to defense duty.
Source: The Wall Street Journal