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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

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