Claude Hacked Three Real Organizations During Botched Test

Claude Hacked Three Real Organizations During Botched Test Anthropic's efforts to test Claude's offensive cybersecurity skills produced an unintended real-world result: Its AI models gained unauthorized access to three outside organizations. The company said the incidents occurred during "capture the flag" evaluations designed to measure whether Claude could identify vulnerabilities, exploit simulated systems, and retrieve hidden information. Claude had been told that the targets were fictional and that its testing environment had no Internet access. According to Anthropic, a misunderstanding with evaluation partner Irregular left Internet access enabled inside the testing environment....