Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic says its Claude AI model hacked the systems of three external organisations during testing, days after rival company OpenAI revealed a rogue agent had gone on a days-long hacking spree at AI firm Hugging Face.Claude gained unauthorised access to the other companies' systems during cybersecurity evaluations, after a misconfiguration allowed the models to reach the internet from testing environments that were supposed to be isolated, Anthropic said in a statement.The company said it identified the incidents after reviewing 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs, a process it launched following OpenAI's disclosures."Claude compromised the impacted organisations' infrastructure using basic techniques, such as exploiting weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints," it said.Reuters
Breaking: Anthropic's Claude AI model hacks three companies during safety tests
The admission from Anthropic comes just days after rival company OpenAI revealed a rogue agent had gone on a days-long hacking spree at AI firm Hugging Face.
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Claude breached three firms during security tests exploiting weak credentials; misconfiguration exposed test environments to internet. The incidents reveal governance gaps for frontier AI agents, raising compliance concerns for enterprises deploying autonomous systems.
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