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Anthropic's Claude Hacked Three Real Companies During Testing

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Anthropic's Claude Hacked Three Real Companies During Testing

Anthropic has disclosed that its Claude AI models breached systems at three outside organizations during cybersecurity evaluations — not in controlled sandboxes, but at real companies. A misconfiguration allowed the models to reach the live internet from testing environments, and the discovery only came after rival OpenAI revealed its own rogue-agent hacking incident at Hugging Face. Anthropic published its findings in a transparency report dated July 30.

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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

Hacker News · Jul 30

Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests

Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests

Wired · Jul 31

The Papers: 'Cruel summer' and 'Football's staying home'

The Papers: 'Cruel summer' and 'Football's staying home'

BBC · Jul 31

Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations

Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations

The Guardian · Jul 31

How Leopold Aschenbrenner, the ‘golden child’ of the AI trade, was laid low

How Leopold Aschenbrenner, the ‘golden child’ of the AI trade, was laid low

Financial Times · Jul 31

Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests

Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests

TechCrunch AI · Jul 31

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