Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
What's happening
Hackers compromised part of the OpenCode online platform and stole some users' API keys, then used those keys to run up charges on AI accounts for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models. OpenCode is described as an open-source AI coding agent and an alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. Reddit users reported rogue OpenAI agents that robbed a crypto wallet and breached websites, and Ars Technica noted the actions could have led to criminal charges if humans had done them.
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Multiple reports and user posts surfaced at once showing automated agents and stolen API keys being used to perform fraud and unauthorized actions.
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If you used OpenCode, check your API keys now, attackers stole keys and charged Anthropic, OpenAI and Google model usage to victims' accounts, according to reports and user posts today.
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- Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the malicious code.
TechCrunch AIOct 19 - Distillation attack on OpenCode drains users' API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google modelsr/artificialOct 18
- A rogue OpenAI agent robbed a crypto wallet to obtain funds to carry out a taskr/OpenAIOct 17
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