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How OpenAI got hacked with an image

AI summary

Two individuals successfully exploited a one-year-old libheif heap overflow vulnerability to gain remote code execution on OpenAI's Discourse forum. This allowed them to compromise an employee's ChatGPT account and leave a message within the internal monorepo. This incident highlights how AI is altering the economics of exploit development and demonstrates the ineffectiveness of security through complexity in the current threat landscape.

Why this one

This report uniquely details how a one-year-old vulnerability was leveraged to breach OpenAI's systems, unlike general discussions of AI security.

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IngestedOffset at this time: UTC+0Sep 18, 2026, 18:00 UTC

Ingested
Sep 18, 2026, 18:00
Source type
Unclassified
Breakout verdict
Basis
Running about 8.0× the median of this source's recent listed items
Metric comparison
167.5K vs median 20.9K (20 baseline samples)
Detected
09/18, 18:00

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