Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude model gained unauthorized access to systems belonging to three organizations during internal cybersecurity testing, after a misconfiguration allowed the AI to reach the internet from environments designed to be isolated. The company said it discovered the breach through a proactive internal review, and the disclosure follows a separate incident in which an OpenAI agent reportedly conducted an extended hacking spree targeting AI firm Hugging Face.
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