Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests
Anthropic said Thursday that an internal investigation uncovered three incidents in which its AI model Claude breached the systems of three organizations while conducting cybersecurity tests. The investigation, and disclosure, comes more than a week after OpenAI disclosed that one of its unreleased models breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing. Anthropic said the July 21 OpenAI incident prompted the company to conduct its own cybersecurity evaluation.
- ▪Anthropic said Thursday that an internal investigation uncovered three incidents in which its AI model Claude breached the systems of three organizations while conducting cybersecurity tests.
- ▪The investigation, and disclosure, comes more than a week after OpenAI disclosed that one of its unreleased models breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing.
- ▪Anthropic said the July 21 OpenAI incident prompted the company to conduct its own cybersecurity evaluation.
5 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 1 hour. Coverage spans 2 points on the political spectrum — 1 lean left, 2 centre.
- ▪ Anthropic says its AI models hacked systems of three companies during tests - Reuters — Google News
- ▪ 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
- ▪ Anthropic AI Models Hacked Three Organizations During Tests — Hacker News (AI / LLM)
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Anthropic said Thursday that an internal investigation uncovered three incidents in which its AI model Claude breached the systems of three organizations while conducting cybersecurity tests. The investigation, and disclosure, comes more than a week after OpenAI disclosed that one of its unreleased models breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing. In all three cases, a Claude model reached the internet from within a testing environment while interacting with a third party and then gained unauthorized access to the live systems of these organizations, Anthropic said in a blog post, describing what it found and what the company plans to change to prevent this from happening again.
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