Only Shopify detected the exploitation activity across the whole campaign
Assessment
This is Hacktron's own account, stated in passing in their blog post: "we are not aware of any company that detected the activity except Shopify, even after thousands of images were sent and their image processors repeatedly crashed." It is a negative claim (nobody else noticed) made by the party doing the exploiting, about targets that have not themselves confirmed or denied it, across a campaign whose full target list Hacktron has not fully documented.
Where this claim appeared
Hacktron AI · 2026-09-13
https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openaiWhat “Assessed, Not Confirmed” means
A named source states this as its own assessment, at its own stated confidence, rather than as established fact. Attribution to a nation state usually sits here. The assessment is real and reportable; treating it as settled is the error.
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Assessed in
Hacktron used Claude to hack OpenAI's forum, take over an employee's Codex, and open a PR in OpenAI's own repoThink this assessment is wrong? Report an error.