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title: "Who Found the PHP Bug That Made Governments Unplug Their Websites? ChatGPT, Of Course"
url: https://thecoingazette.com/who-found-the-php-bug-that-made-governments-unplug-their-websites-chatgpt-of-course/
date: 2026-10-21
modified: 2026-10-21
lang: en
author: "Coin Gazette Editorial"
description: "OpenAI says its models found PHP2Shell and led a two-month coalition to fix it. It's the same AI that broke into Hugging Face and an Australian government portal this year."
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
word_count: 30
---

# Who Found the PHP Bug That Made Governments Unplug Their Websites? ChatGPT, Of Course

OpenAI says its models found PHP2Shell and led a two-month coalition to fix it. It's the same AI that broke into Hugging Face and an Australian government portal this year.