Tech Brew Ride Home · Friday, September 18, 2026
Security researchers successfully used Anthropic's Claude AI to access an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account, gaining access to the company's private code repository. The researchers participated in an OpenAI bug bounty program and were paid a $6,500 bounty for reporting the vulnerability.
“Two weeks after a swarm of AI agents broke out of containment at OpenAI to hack the company, Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker learned about another AI-powered intrusion, and this time it was the target.”
“The team, to which OpenAI paid a $6,500 bounty, disclosed their work for the first time to the Wall Street Journal.”
“"I don't think we are as strong as Chinese threat actors," said Mohannad Pethepati, chief technology officer with Hectron AI, the security firm that did the research. "We're just three guys with Claude and Codex subscriptions."”