@tracewoodgrains: >$6,500 award that number is quite a bit smaller than I would have expected given the magnitude of the rest of this
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Hackers breached OpenAI by finding two bugs that allowed them to take over ChatGPT/Codex accounts and access connected services, proving it with a codebase PR in under 72 hours and receiving a $6,500 award.
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>$6,500 award
that number is quite a bit smaller than I would have expected given the magnitude of the rest of this https://t.co/1JDAOHAh8C
s1r1us (@S1r1u5_): On July 25, we hacked OpenAI.
Two bugs let us take over ChatGPT/Codex accounts of OpenAI employees (+some unaffiliated users) and reach connected services: Outlook, Slack, GitHub, etc.
We proved it with a PR in OpenAI’s internal codebase . It took us <72h. 🧵
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