Three guys with Claude and Codex subscriptions reportedly gained write access to OpenAI's monorepo in two days
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-18
- Legal commentator @justanotherlaw amplifies a claim that in late July, three people armed only with Claude and Codex subscriptions used Opus to obtain OpenAI auth tokens and gain write access to the openai/openai monorepo over two days.
- Gary Marcus reposted it calling it crazy; details are unverified, but if true it highlights a serious security lapse at a frontier AI lab.
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