$3,000. 72 hours. OpenAI's GitHub, accessed. Opus 4.8 failed. Opus 5 cracked it. One model upgrade flipped a dead exploit live — and that should scare every security team. AI-assisted hacking, a secret Anthropic bio lab, and the new economics of breaking into big tech.
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$3,000. 72 hours. OpenAI's GitHub, accessed. Opus 4.8 failed. Opus 5 cracked it. One model upgrade flipped a dead exploit live — and that should scare every security team. AI-assisted hacking, a secret Anthropic bio lab, and the new economics of breaking into big tech.
Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Breach OpenAI in 72 Hours Researchers used Claude Opus 5 to exploit a forum flaw and chain it with an OpenAI SSO weakness, reaching internal systems in under 72 hours.