Researcher slams OpenAI's $6,500 bounty: hacked ChatGPT account worth far more on grey market
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-18
A security researcher criticized OpenAI for not taking cybersecurity seriously: a compromised ChatGPT account connected to a company's GitHub, Slack, and email is worth orders of magnitude more than $6,500 on the grey market — exposing model weights, source code, and private communications. The researcher argues OpenAI got the friendliest possible version of this attack yet paid the finders pocket change, and should hire competent security staff and raise bounties.
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