Hackers breached OpenAI, adding to fever pitch of security and safety concerns

A small group of cybersecurity researchers said Sunday that they broke into OpenAI earlier this year, an announcement that has added a new element of alarm around AI security and safety.

The researchers, from a small company called Hacktron, found that by chaining together two unknown vulnerabilities, one in a third-party company called Discourse and one in how OpenAI validates its employees, they could access employees' ChatGPT accounts. As is customary for researchers — sometimes called "white-hat hackers" — they caused no harm to the company's systems...