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AI Didn't Hack OpenAI. A Missed Debian Backport and an SSO Misconfiguration Did

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The headline that circulated this week sounds like a movie trailer: hackers breached OpenAI's internal codebase in 72 hours, and an AI model wrote the exploit. Three researchers, a Claude model, a pull request inside OpenAI's private monorepo. The real story is more useful and more uncomfortable. N…

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  1. 2026-09-20 03:08 · DEV Community — AI
    AI Didn't Hack OpenAI. A Missed Debian Backport and an SSO Misconfiguration Did

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