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Hacktron cleared roughly $3,500 on the exploit chain that reached OpenAI's GitHub

Three researchers at Hacktron AI used Claude to turn a bug in the Discourse software behind OpenAI's forum into access to employee Codex accounts and the private GitHub. OpenAI paid $6,500 for the chain, roughly twice what one unattributed account says it cost.

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Researchers reached OpenAI's private repository through a forum bug and reused tokens

Hacktron AI found the flaw in Discourse, the outside platform running OpenAI's community forum, and some of the authentication tokens sitting on that server also worked on ChatGPT accounts held by OpenAI staff.

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Hacktron cleared roughly $3,500 on the exploit chain that reached OpenAI's GitHub

Researchers reached OpenAI's private repository through a forum bug and reused tokens