Moonshot-linked individuals allegedly tried to extract OpenAI’s protected model reasoning

OpenAI says operators copied encrypted reasoning between conversations and asked a model to decrypt it, without breaking encryption or accessing stored user conversations. It logged 16,000 requests using a relevant extraction pattern from over 4,000 users on July 24–25; those figures count attempts, not necessarily successful extractions. OpenAI attributes a core cluster to individuals associated with Moonshot AI but says it cannot link every operator to one actor.