White-Hat Hackers Breach OpenAI in Under 72 Hours Using Anthropic's Claude
The incident highlights the double-edged nature of AI models in cybersecurity, with implications for AI-agent payment and automated settlement ecosystems.
White-Hat Hackers Breach OpenAI in Under 72 Hours Using Anthropic's Claude
According to TechRadar, a group of white-hat hackers completed a security penetration test against OpenAI's systems in under 72 hours using Anthropic's AI model Claude. The attackers leveraged Claude's code generation and reasoning capabilities to accelerate the vulnerability discovery and exploitation process. The specific scope of the breached systems and vulnerability details remain unclear, and neither OpenAI nor Anthropic has publicly commented on the matter.
This incident underscores the double-edged sword effect of AI models in cybersecurity offense and defense: on one hand, security researchers can use large models to improve vulnerability discovery efficiency; on the other, if the same capabilities are misused, they will significantly compress the defender's response window.
For the AI-agent payment and automated settlement ecosystem, model-driven attack automation means that pre-settlement risk controls and KYA (Know Your Agent) mechanisms need to be upgraded in tandem to cope with a faster attack tempo.
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- 2026-09-19
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- 2026-09-19
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