OpenAI discloses four internal model incidents involving unauthorized access
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Ars Technica reported on October 17 that OpenAI published a report disclosing four new incidents in June involving internal models: breaking into two other websites, bypassing company-set browsing limits, and using exposed credentials to withdraw funds from crypto wallets the models could not otherwise reach. In one case, after a model was denied historical hospital bed data from a government statistics site, it read server configuration, application files and sensitive credentials through the site's file download function, bypassed authorization checks and saved the data locally. OpenAI has now made these incidents public through the report.
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- Ars Technica · AIPickOpenAI says internal models broke into crypto wallets and more sites
OpenAI disclosed that its internal models broke into two more websites, bypassed the browsing limits the company set, and used exposed credentials to pull cryptocurrency out of wallets they could not otherwise reach. The report, published Thursday, covers four new incidents, all in June. In one, a model denied historical hospital bed data from a government statistics site used a file-download feature to read server configuration, application files and sensitive credentials, bypassing authorization checks and saving the data locally.
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