This tiny cybersecurity startup managed to hack OpenAI using Claude, and won a $6,500 bounty

Hacktron, a small San Francisco-based AI cybersecurity startup, used Claude to hack into OpenAI's internal codebase, according to cofounder and CEO Zayne Zhang. Zhang told Business Insider that his research team began investigating security vulnerabilities at frontier AI companies to determine whether they have gaps that could be exploited by AI agents. In July, the team discovered gaps in OpenAI's infrastructure, and the company was paid $6,500 for flagging the vulnerabilities. Hacktron published its disclosure about the incident on Sunday.

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