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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

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

A man stands below a large Salesforce OpenAI sign at a technology conference booth
An OpenAI booth at the Dreamforce technology summit in San Francisco on Thursday. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

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.

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