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PublishedSeptember 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI

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A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access OpenAI's GitHub repository, called "Monorepo," which reported
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