A three-member team of Indian-origin cybersecurity researchers — Mohan Pedhapati and researchers Harsh Jaiswal and Rahul Maini — has demonstrated how an AI-assisted attack could be used to gain access to parts of OpenAI’s internal systems, using Anthropic’s Claude to help exploit a vulnerability in a third-party service.According to the researchers at cybersecurity startup Hacktron AI and a report by The Wall Street Journal, the team gained access to several OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT and Codex accounts and used one of those accounts to reach OpenAI’s private GitHub environment.The researchers said they stopped testing after establishing that they could potentially access sensitive internal material. They said they did not read or download OpenAI’s private source code.WHY IT MATTERSFor the wider AI industry, the episode raises a difficult question -- as AI becomes better at finding and exploiting software flaws, will defenders be able to secure complex systems as quickly as attackers can probe them?The operation was conducted as part of responsible security research. Hacktron said it reported the vulnerabilities to OpenAI and Discourse, the company whose forum software was involved in the initial vulnerability. OpenAI subsequently paid Hacktron a $6,500 bug bounty.Here are the LinkedIns of the 3 Indian guys who hacked OpenAI with Opus 5 in 2 days for