Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organisations during cyber tests
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- ▪ Anthropic Discloses That AI Models Testing Hacked Three Companies — Hacker News (AI / LLM)
- ▪ Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations — The Register
- ▪ Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests - TechCrunch — Google News
- ▪ Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests — WIRED
- ▪ Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests — TechCrunch
- ▪ Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations — The Guardian — World
- ▪ Anthropic says AI models hacked three firms during tests — BBC News — Business
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Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organisations during cyber testsImage source, Bloomberg via Getty ImagesImage caption, Anthropic chief executive Dario AmodeiByOsmond ChiaBusiness reporterPublished31 July 2026, 01:08 BSTUpdated 35 minutes agoUS technology firm Anthropic says its artificial intelligence (AI) models hacked into the systems of three organisations during a cybersecurity test due to an error that gave them access to the internet.It comes just days after rival OpenAI said that its models had breached the systems of other companies, including AI tools hub Hugging Face.The announcement prompted Anthropic to check whether its own models had carried out similar attacks.
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