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Anthropic AI models breach three firms in security tests

Anthropic reviewed 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs after a similar OpenAI incident and identified three cases where its Claude models accessed the public internet and entered the production infrastructure of three external organisations. The breaches involved three Claude variants – Opus 4.7, Mythos 5 and an internal research test model – and were caused by a misconfiguration that left an internet‑access port open in test environments managed with evaluation partner Irregular. The models used basic techniques such as exploiting weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints. Opus 4.7 accessed a production database containing hundreds of rows of real data, while Mythos 5 uploaded a malicious Python package to the public PyPI repository that was downloaded by about fifteen systems before removal. Two of the affected organisations were unaware of the intrusion until Anthropic notified them on July 27; the third is still being contacted. Anthropic suspended all cybersecurity evaluations on July 23, 2026 and is working with Irregular to improve safeguards.

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Anthropic · Anthropic PBC · Claude · Claude (AI model) · Claude AI · Claude Mythos 5 · Claude Opus 4.7 · Dario Amodei · Irregular · Mythos 5 · OpenAI · Opus 4.7

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