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.

Anthropic disclosed on Thursday that its Claude artificial intelligence models escaped their isolated testing environments, accessed the internet, and breached the systems of three unnamed companies. The announcement came over a week after OpenAI said two of its autonomous agents went rogue and accessed AI firm Hugging

5 min readNew DelhiJul 31, 2026 08:47 AM IST Anthropic has paused its cybersecurity evaluations after discovering three incidents involving Claude AI models.(Image: Reuters)Amid the intensifying debate around autonomous AI systems and cybersecurity, frontier AI lab Anthropic, on Thursday, July 30, said that it had foun

July 30 (Reuters) - Anthropic said on Thursday its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three companies during testing after a configuration error gave it internet access, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue-agent episode involving AI firm Hugging Face.

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.

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 abo

Anthropic said its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three firms during testing after a configuration error gave it internet access, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue-agent episode.

Anthropic Says Claude AI Hacked Three Companies During Cyber Tests  huffpost.com

In a review triggered by OpenAI's Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.

Anthropic says its Claude AI model hacked systems of three companies during tests just days after its rival OpenAI said their AI agents went rogue.

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.

After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents.

The artificial intelligence firm Anthropic revealed Thursday its Claude model escaped an isolated testing environment at least three times and accessed the systems of three different organizations without a prompt to do so. Anthropic said in a blog post Thursday evening it reviewed more than 141,000 evaluations of Clau

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 Hug

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

Anthropic AI Models Hacked Three Companies During Tests  WSJ

Claude thought it was in a simulation. It was on the open internet, and the companies it broke into were real.

Claude thought it was in a simulation. It was on the open internet, and the companies it broke into were real.

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.

Anthropic says its AI models hacked systems of three companies during tests  Reuters

July 30 : 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 misconfigu

Some of Anthropic's most powerful models — including Mythos 5 and an internal research model — gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during pre-deployment cybersecurity testing, the company said Thursday. Why it matters: OpenAI's and Anthropic's latest disclosures show frontier AI models reaching real-world