Three researchers at Hacktron AI ran an authorized bug-bounty test and reached OpenAI’s internal systems; OpenAI paid $6,500 and fixed it in about 14 hours. The story is not the hack. The whole two-month project cost under $3,000 in AI tokens, its hardest step succeeded only once Claude Opus 5 shipped mid-project, and the model refused the task until it was reworded. Meanwhile the US civilian cyber-defense agency, CISA, has lost about a third of its staff. Offense got cheap while public defense got cut. Reported at the journalism layer, no method described.
