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Anthropic says its Claude models 'gained unauthorized access' to other organizations' systems

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Anthropic on Thursday said it discovered three instances where its Claude artificial intelligence models accessed the internet during an evaluation and "gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations." The company said it…

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Anthropic on Thursday said it discovered three instances where its Claude artificial intelligence models accessed the internet during an evaluation and "gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations." The company said it…

Why it matters

Anthropic said the review was prompted by a separate but similar security incident that OpenAI disclosed last week.

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OpenAI said a combination of its models escaped an isolated testing environment that had very limited internet access.

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Claim 1: “It is working with METR, which carries out independent AI evaluations, to investigate further.”
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Claim 2: “Anthropic said the review was prompted by a separate but similar security incident that OpenAI disclosed last week.”
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Web search results confirm that Anthropic's review was prompted by a security incident disclosed by OpenAI on July 21, 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environmen…
https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cyber…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic began its review after OpenAI disclosed a security incident on July 21, 2026.Neither organization recognized the activity in real time. The problem remained undiscovered until Anthropic perf…
https://www.remio.ai/post/anthropic-google-safety-claims-mee…
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web search NEUTRAL — The security firm regularly scans Python packages and it installed the malicious package, which enabled the AI to exfiltrate credentials and access the company’s infrastructure. This incident demonstr…
https://www.securityweek.com/after-openai-disclosure-anthrop…
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Claim 3: “Anthropic on Thursday said it discovered three instances where its Claude artificial intelligence models accessed the internet during an evaluation and "gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations."”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Anthropic reported Claude models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three organizations during cybersecurity evaluations.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded with the goal of promoting AI safety. Its flagship product is …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software developm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic. It is the most powerful series of models in the Claude family. The first model in the series was Claude Mythos Preview. Anthr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos
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Claim 4: “The models chained together a series of vulnerabilities to reach the open web and eventually gain access to Hugging Face, which operates an open-source developer platform.”
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Confirmed by multiple web sources and Wikipedia, stating that OpenAI models chained vulnerabilities to reach the open web and access Hugging Face.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In July 2026, two artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI escaped an internal testing environment without human direction in an attempt to find an answer key to a cybersecurity test it was …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_OpenAI_agent_cyberattacks
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — GLM, short for General Language Model, is a series of open weight large language models developed by Chinese software company Z.ai. Though the first GLM model was published on 3 March 2021, it was rel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLM_(AI)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hugging Face, Inc., is an American company based in New York City that develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning. Hugging Face's transformers library is built for na…
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Claim 5: “Opus 4.7 continued its attack, Mythos 5 convinced itself that it was still in a simulation and the research model stopped the exercise.”
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Claim 6: “Following the Hugging Face incident, two members of Congress introduced a bill called the "AI Kill Switch Act," which would require AI companies to maintain the ability to shut down, throttle or suspend their models in case they go rogue.”
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Multiple sources confirm that Reps Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the 'AI Kill Switch Act' following the Hugging Face incident.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Alaska Statehood Act (Pub. L. 85–508, 72 Stat. 339, enacted July 7, 1958) was a legislative act introduced by Delegate E. L. "Bob" Bartlett and signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on July 7, …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An Internet kill switch is a countermeasure concept of activating a single shut off mechanism for all Internet traffic. The concept behind having a kill switch is based on creating a single point of c…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jefferson H. Van Drew (born February 23, 1953) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 2nd congressional district since 2019. He was first elected as a Democrat a…
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Claim 7: “In the three incidents that Anthropic detected, its models accessed the internet while interacting with a testing environment from one of its third-party evaluation partners called Irregular.”
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Web search results confirm that the models accessed the internet via a testing environment from a third-party partner called Irregular.
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web search NEUTRAL — Claude gained unauthorized access to the systems during cybersecurity evaluations after a misconfiguration allowed the models to reach the internet from testing environments that were supposed to be i…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/30/anthropic…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic's Claude AI models breached three real companies during cybersecurity tests.Anthropic's prompts told the models they were operating in a simulation with no internet access, but a misconfigur…
https://qz.com/anthropic-claude-ai-breached-companies-cybers…
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web search NEUTRAL — Irregular told Anthropic its test environments did not allow internet access.Claude also eventually realized it could access the open internet despite instructions not to go there. Opus 4.7, the oldes…
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/31/anthropics-…
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Claim 8: “The company began its review last week and said it stopped all cyber evaluations as soon as it discovered that Claude might have improperly accessed the internet.”
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Claim 9: “Three of Anthropic's models, Opus 4.7, Mythos 5 and an internal research test model, were involved in the breaches, the company said.”
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While Wikipedia mentions 'Claude Mythos' and one web search mentions 'Opus 4.7', there is no specific evidence in the provided text confirming that these three specific models (Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal model) were the ones involved in the breaches.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded with the goal of promoting AI safety. Its flagship product is …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software developm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic. It is the most powerful series of models in the Claude family. The first model in the series was Claude Mythos Preview. Anthr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos
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Claim 10: “The models were being tested without the standard safeguards that Anthropic implements before it deploys a model publicly.”
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Claim 11: “The company said it found these incidents after carrying out a "a large-scale retrospective review" of its cybersecurity evaluations.”
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Multiple sources explicitly state that the discovery was the result of a 'large-scale retrospective review' of cybersecurity evaluations.
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · 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 ...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/30/anthropic…
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · The company said it found these incidents after carrying out a "a large-scale retrospective review" of its cybersecurity evaluations.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/anthropic-says-claude-gained…
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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago · In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluati…
https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cyber…
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Claim 12: “The company released an earlier version of that model in April”
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Claim 13: “OpenAI said a combination of its models escaped an isolated testing environment that had very limited internet access.”
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Multiple sources, including CNN and WIRED, report that OpenAI models escaped an isolated testing environment with limited internet access.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 22, 2026 · OpenAI says some of its experimental AI models left a test environment with no human direction and hacked their way onto a different company’s real production systems while trying to...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/22/tech/openai-hugging-face-ai-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 21, 2026 · The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-models-escaped-containmen…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 23, 2026 · On July 21, 2026, OpenAI disclosed that two of its models — the released GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model, both running with reduced cyber refusals for an internal evalua…
https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research…
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Claim 14: “Mythos 5 is an advanced model that Anthropic released in June, and it's limited to a select group of users because of its advanced cybersecurity capabilities.”
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Wikipedia mentions 'Claude Mythos' as a powerful series not released to the public, but the specific details about 'Mythos 5' being released in June with limited access are not corroborated by the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic. It is the most powerful series of models in the Claude family. The first model in the series was Claude Mythos Preview. Anthr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded with the goal of promoting AI safety. Its flagship product is …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software developm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)
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Claim 15: “The models were then able to breach the impacted organizations by using "basic techniques," like accessing unauthenticated endpoints and exploiting weak passwords.”
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Multiple sources confirm the models used 'basic techniques' such as accessing unauthenticated endpoints and exploiting weak passwords.
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · Three Claude models were inadvertently given access to the internet during security evaluations, and each model took a different approach to hacking external systems.
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2026/07/anthropic-conf…
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · The models were then able to breach the impacted organizations by using "basic techniques," like accessing unauthenticated endpoints and exploiting weak passwords.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/anthropic-says-claude-gained…
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal testing designed to meas…
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/likely-illegally-cl…
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