Anthropic says AI models hacked three firms during tests

It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firm's networks.

What We Know So Far About Hacking by Anthropic AI Models

Here's what we know so far about Anthropic's AI models breaching three organizations during cybersecurity tests which went awry. (Source: Bloomberg)

Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations

The disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an online library.

By Mike Isaac and Kate Conger

Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations

Company says it discovered unauthorized access during ‘proactive review’ after rival OpenAI revealed rogue agent Anthropic ⁠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 during cybersecurity evaluations after a misconfiguration allowed the models to reach the internet from testing en...

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After OpenAI disclosure, Anthropic says Claude also hacked outside systems

The incidents have heightened concerns about AI agents, software products designed to perform tasks autonomously.

Anthropic says its Claude models 'gained unauthorized access' to other organizations' systems

Anthropic said it discovered three instances where its Claude AI models accessed the internet during an evaluation and accessed outside systems.

Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three companies during tests

Three separate versions of Claude AI broke out of cybertesting environments and hacked three firms, its developer Anthropic said. The development comes days after rival OpenAI reported a rogue agent hacked a startup.

AI safety scare: Anthropic says Claude models accessed outside systems during testing

Anthropic said three versions of its Claude AI model gained unauthorised access to external organisations during safety tests after a configuration error exposed them to the internet, days after OpenAI disclosed similar security failures. The incident is likely to intensify concerns over increasingly autonomous AI systems and calls for stronger safeguards around the industry's most advanced models.

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Anthropic Says Its AI Models Hacked Into Three Organizations During Testing

Anthropic said the earliest of these incidents occurred in April, and it has notified all three companies that were affected by the hack.

By Siladitya Ray, Forbes Staff

Anthropic says its models went rogue and hacked 3 companies during testing

Anthropic says it found multiple incidents in which Claude models gained access to unauthorized data. Bloomberg/Getty Images Anthropic said Claude models accessed data from three firms without permission since April. Anthropic said it conducted a review after the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach. There are growing fears about the amount of data AI models can access by design or by mistake. Anthropic says it found multiple incidents in which Claude models gained access to company data without perm...

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After OpenAI, Anthropic admits its Claude AI models hacked into three real companies

Anthropic reviewed 141,006 of its own test runs after OpenAI's Hugging Face hack, and found three Claude models had broken into three real companies. Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5 and an unreleased model used basic techniques like weak passwords and SQL injection. One uploaded malware to PyPI that 15 systems ran. Two victims never knew. The earliest breach dates to April, three months before anyone checked.

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Anthropic’s AI models hacked three organizations during tests

Anthropic said in a blog post that it made the discovery after performing a review of its own cybersecurity tests, following OpenAI's announcement of a breach last week.

Anthropic says Claude AI models accessed three companies during tests

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Chinese military researchers tap US AI models to train defence systems

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Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three firms during cyber tests

US technology firm Anthropic says its artificial intelligence (AI) models hacked into the systems of three other firms during a cybersecurity test due to an error that gave them access to the internet.

By Abubakar Ibrahim