OpenAI paid just $6,500 for a breach done by 3 researchers with $3,000 of compute in 72 hours
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-18
Three researchers breached OpenAI—not a nation-state—using AI and under $3,000 of compute, reaching the internal monorepo in under 72 hours. OpenAI paid them only a $6,500 bug bounty.
- Commenters note Immunefi bounties for medium-severity bugs used to pay more
- The mismatch: LLMs touted as world-ending tech, yet vulnerability discovery in them is rewarded at commodity rates
Related event: Researchers Used Claude to Hack Into OpenAI via HEIF Bug Chain(52 posts)→
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