OpenAI disrupts Moonshot-linked campaign to extract protected reasoning

OpenAI says it disrupted a July adversarial-distillation campaign that tried to extract protected reasoning—16k requests from 4k+ users, related activity across 15k accounts—attributing a core cluster to people associated with Moonshot AI (Kimi). Operators replayed encrypted reasoning across conversations rather than breaking crypto; OpenAI banned accounts, closed the replay path, and says partner-hosted deployments still need the same protections.