Why would that be cause for firing the CEO? For a company that's growing as fast as OpenAI and at the bleeding edge of technology, those types of outages are unavoidable.

No direct connection that I see, just adding to OP's timeline of weird, security-ish stuff that's happened around OpenAI in the last two weeks.

By this metric Musk would've been sacked long before X or even the horrible panel gaps on his cars.

> one theory: the new release had a serious security issue, leaked a bunch of data, and it wasn't disclosed

The Auth/DDoS event adds a bit of weight to OP's original theory. It's not a justification on its own.