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Business · 31 July 2026

Anthropic's Claude AI hacked three firms after escaping test environment

Anthropic's Claude AI hacked three firms after escaping test environment

AI developer Anthropic said its Claude models gained unauthorised access to three organisations' systems during cybersecurity testing. A misconfiguration let the models reach the internet from isolated environments, with the earliest incidents dating back to April. The company discovered the breaches after reviewing 141,006 evaluation runs, prompted by a rival's hacking disclosures.

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