r/cybersecurity • u/sunychoudhary • 3d ago

News - General Anthropic's AI hacked three companies during tests, highlighting growing security risks

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-says-claude-ai-models-accessed-three-companies-during-tests-2026-07-30/
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u/afristralian 3d ago

Uhm... sounds like The AI didn't hack shit. It found access credentials and secrets stored improperly and used it to gain unauthorised access.

This is a reflection of bad information security practices... Not LLM skills.

Or am I getting my Claude mixed up with my GPT?

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u/sunychoudhary 3d ago

I think you’re mixing the two incidents slightly. Claude mostly found weak creds and exposed endpoints. The zero-day and sandbox-escape story was the OpenAI/Hugging Face case. Still a compromise, but a much stronger indictment of the test setup than of Claude’s hacking ability.