OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
A US cybersecurity startup used Anthropic's Claude to help hack into OpenAI, compromising employee ChatGPT accounts and gaining access to software caches. The researchers described the potential scope of access as extensive.
Why this matters: A rival company's AI was used to break into another AI company's internal systems. That is worth sitting with for a moment. OpenAI holds enormous amounts of user data, proprietary code, and research. The researchers say what they could have reached was vast. This was a controlled test, but the same methods are available to people with worse intentions. If a startup can do this with off-the-shelf AI tools, the real concern is how many employees at sensitive companies are one phishing step away from a much larger problem.
Who should care: Cybersecurity · Privacy officers · Administrators · General readers · AI governance · Policy
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