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Security researchers in OpenAI's bug bounty program hacked OpenAI in July and accessed its "monorepo" on GitHub, using Opus 4.8 for cybersecurity and Opus 5 (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

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Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal : Security researchers in OpenAI's bug bounty program hacked OpenAI in July and accessed its monorepo on GitHub, using Opus 4.8 for cybersecurity and Opus 5 A bug-hunting independent security research team was able to access OpenAI's internal code system, expos…

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  1. 2026-09-18 04:40 · Techmeme
    Security researchers in OpenAI's bug bounty program hacked OpenAI in July and accessed its "monorepo" on GitHub, using Opus 4.8 for cybersecurity and Opus 5 (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

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