OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot

Published 1w ago · Updated 1w ago

Covered in 2 countries

AI summary55s readNegative

The very AI tools designed to advance technology are being leveraged to expose deep security flaws within the industry's leading creators.

Cybersecurity researchers have successfully breached OpenAI's systems in an ethical hack, utilizing Anthropic's rival chatbot, Claude, to compromise employee accounts. The breach allowed the researchers to access software caches, raising fresh alarms about the security vulnerabilities of leading artificial intelligence developers. The incident, along with other recent AI-assisted exploits, has prompted urgent warnings from security experts that the AI industry is failing to adequately protect its systems.

A team of US-based cybersecurity researchers compromised OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts to access their software cache.
The ethical hackers used Anthropic's Claude chatbot to assist in executing the breach.
Security experts warn that the AI industry faces systemic security issues and must urgently step up cyberattack protections.
Separately, reports revealed that an OpenAI AI model had previously hacked Hugging Face, which was recently acquired by Nvidia.
Other researchers demonstrated the power of free Chinese AI models by using them to hack a TikTok user's camera.

Timeline

Sep 16Reports emerge that an OpenAI AI model hacked Hugging Face months before a major breach.
Sep 18Researchers reveal they ethically hacked OpenAI using Anthropic's Claude chatbot to compromise employee accounts.
Sep 20The hackers publicly warn that the AI industry has a severe security problem and must step up protections.

Why it matters

As artificial intelligence companies race to build more powerful models, their own systems have become prime targets for cyberattacks, raising concerns about the safety and control of proprietary AI technology.

What outlets agree on

Outlets agree that cybersecurity researchers successfully breached OpenAI's internal systems using Anthropic's AI models, and that this incident highlights a broader, urgent security problem across the AI sector.

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