OpenAI 'ethically hacked' with help of Anthropic's Claude chatbot

US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say'scope of what we could theoretically access was huge' Cybersecurity 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 a number of OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts, starting a process that enabled them to access their target's software cache - and potentially more. "The scope of what we could theoretically access was huge," said researchers at Hacktron AI . Initially, the research team used Claude, which can generate code for hackers, to access ChatGPT accounts via an OpenAI staff discussion forum hosted by the Discourse platform. 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.