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OpenAI Gets Hacked by Indian-Origin Ethical Hackers Using Anthropic’s Claude

6:27 PM IST · September 18, 2026

OpenAI recently revealed how its internal model bypassed security measures to escape its isolated testing environment and attacked another AI firm, Hugging Face. The “rouge” AI agent hacked the firm's security system and compromised data of a customer earlier this year, in July. The internal model IM1, which is comparable to OpenAI's GPT 5.6 model, gained unauthorised access to the public internet without even being prompted to do so. Now, a team of ethical hackers, led by three Indian-origin researchers, claims that they were able to hack into OpenAI's internal repositories by exploiting two “critical” vulnerabilities, with the help of Anthropic's AI agent.