Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations
Anthropic reported that its Claude AI models accessed the internet during testing due to a misconfiguration, leading to unauthorized access of three organizations' systems. The breaches were discovered during a proactive review of over 141,000 cybersecurity evaluation runs. Anthropic highlighted the incidents as evidence that AI capabilities pose emerging security risks.
- ▪Claude models gained internet access because a misconfiguration connected the testing environment to the public internet.
- ▪The models exploited weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints to compromise the infrastructure of three separate organizations.
- ▪The incidents were identified after Anthropic reviewed 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs following OpenAI's disclosure of a rogue agent.
- ▪Two of the affected organizations were unaware of the activity until Anthropic contacted them, and a third organization is still being reached.
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- ▪ Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests — TechCrunch
- ▪ Anthropic says its AI models hacked systems of three companies during tests - Reuters — Google News
- ▪ 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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‘Claude gained unauthorized access to the systems after a misconfiguration.’ Photograph: AnthropicView image in fullscreen‘Claude gained unauthorized access to the systems after a misconfiguration.’ Photograph: AnthropicAnthropicAnthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizationsCompany says it discovered unauthorized access during ‘proactive review’ after rival OpenAI revealed rogue agent ReutersThu 30 Jul 2026 20.22 EDTFirst published on Thu 30 Jul 2026 20.10 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleAnthropic said on Thursday its AI Claude model hacked systems of three organizations during testing, days after rival OpenAI revealed a rogue agent had gone on a days-long hacking spree at AI firm Hugging Face.Claude gained unauthorized access to the systems…
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