Truth Check/1 October 2026
“We attribute a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi”
The claim as it travelled: OpenAI, 30 Sept 2026.
Holds
The claim holds against the page that produced it.
The attribution is in OpenAI's own post; its footnote says the figures describe attempted, not necessarily successful, extractions.
- Checked Against
- openai.com ↗Primary
- Read the Check
- OpenAI says a Moonshot-linked cluster sent 16,000 requests in two days to pull its models' hidden reasoning; 15,000 accounts cut off by 28 July
The campaign ran from 1 July. OpenAI says no encryption was broken and its figures count attempts, not successes; it attributes a core cluster to 'individuals associated with Moonshot AI', the Kimi developer, not to the company.
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