Was OpenAI Really Hacked With One Image? Here Is What Happened
EN · ENGLISH UR · اردو ES · ESPAÑOL HI · हिन्दी RU · РУССКИЙ DE · DEUTSCH EN · ENGLISH UR · اردو ES · ESPAÑOL HI · हिन्दी RU · РУССКИЙ DE · DEUTSCH AI security news · September 2026 · 4 min read Was OpenAI Really Hacked With One Image? Here Is What Happened Syed Zubair Hussain Shah · 2026-09-29 A headline has been going around saying OpenAI got hacked with a single image. There is a real story behind it, and a real image was involved. The headline still leaves out most of what happened. A crafted HEIC image being processed by a forum server The image opened the first door. It took a second bug to go further. crafted.heic forum server ONE IMAGE, ONE DOOR The image opened the first door. It took a second bug to go further. The short version In July 2026, three researchers from the security startup Hacktron (Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati and Rahul Maini) uploaded a specially crafted HEIC image to OpenAI's community forum, which runs on the open source Discourse software. A ...