Report: Hackers Used a Loosened-Guardrail Opus 5 to Breach OpenAI's Internal Monorepo
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-18
Per Andrew Curran, the recent hack was carried out using Opus 5—apparently a version with loosened cyber-guardrails—and the attackers successfully accessed OpenAI's internal monorepo. The unsettling question: if three individuals could pull this off, what could a nation-state do? Details remain unconfirmed, but the episode has fueled worries about relaxed model safety guardrails.
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