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OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty launch

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OpenAI launched the Safety Bug Bounty on Bugcrowd, expanding researcher coverage for AI abuse and safety risks across its products. The new program complements OpenAI’s existing Security Bug Bounty and focuses on issues that may not qualify as traditional security vulnerabilities. Its scope includes agentic risks, account and platform integrity abuse, and OpenAI proprietary information abuse.

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  1. 26.03.2026 14:20 2 articles · 3mo ago

    OpenAI launches Safety Bug Bounty on Bugcrowd

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    OpenAI launched the Safety Bug Bounty on Bugcrowd to reward researchers who report AI abuse and safety risks across OpenAI products, including agentic risks such as MCP abuse, third-party prompt injection, data exfiltration, disallowed actions at scale on OpenAI's website, account and platform integrity abuse, and OpenAI proprietary information abuse; the program complements OpenAI's Security Bug Bounty and is already open for submissions.

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