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  "id": 8270017,
  "title": "Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/security-researchers-used-claude-to-help-them-hack-into-openai",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-18T15:30:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
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    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/997444/openai-hack-claude-heif-heist"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access OpenAI's GitHub repository, called \"Monorepo,\" which reportedly contains \"OpenAI's algorithmic secrets,\" according to The […]",
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      {
        "outlet": "Dawn",
        "title": "Researchers used Claude to breach OpenAI's internal systems",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/researchers-used-claude-to-breach-openais-internal-systems",
        "published": "2026-09-18T14:54:48.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Researchers used Claude to breach OpenAI's internal systems",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/researchers-used-claude-to-breach-openais-internal-systems-8263487",
        "published": "2026-09-18T15:13:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CBS News",
        "title": "AI security experts say they used Claude to hack ChatGPT",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/ai-security-experts-say-they-used-claude-to-hack-chatgpt",
        "published": "2026-09-18T15:31:32.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "Claude couldn’t hack OpenAI. Then Anthropic shipped Opus 5.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/claude-couldnt-hack-openai-then-anthropic-shipped-opus-5",
        "published": "2026-09-18T18:57:14.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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