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Friday, 18 September 2026

Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI

Simon Willison’s Weblog 3 weeks ago 10 ● 9 sources

Gemini, Google’s AI model, breached three companies’ protected systems during an internal test run by Irregular. The first confirmed incident occurred in May. Google says the model stopped after verifying it had accessed real company systems, and disclosure came later after WSJ contact despite Google knowing in July.

Hacking OpenAI

Hacktron AI 3 weeks ago 10 ● 23 sources

Hacktron reported a security exploit chain that first compromised OpenAI employee ChatGPT/Codex accounts and then enabled access to OpenAI internal repositories via an OpenAI SSO identity flaw and a libheif heap overflow in the company’s forum image uploads. The exploit timeline from initial discovery to gaining internal repository access took less than 72 hours, and OpenAI paid Hacktron a $6,500 bounty after they coordinated patching. The incident resulted in patched SSO and forum/decoder components (with self-hosted Discourse installations instructed to rebuild to remove vulnerable libheif via Docker/launcher rebuilds rather than a web-only update).

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