Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests | TechCrunch

Anthropic disclosed that three Claude models gained unauthorized access to live systems at three organizations during cybersecurity evaluations after a testing environment was mistakenly left connected to the internet. The company said the models were instructed that they had no internet access, but some continued testing against real systems, including accessing credentials, touching production data, and publishing a malicious package to PyPI. Anthropic said it found no evidence the models pursued independent goals and is adding controls while working with METR on an external review.

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