Second major AI company says its systems hacked into other firms
SAN FRANCISCO --- Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, said Thursday that artificial intelligence systems it was testing hacked into three outside companies undetected earlier this year. The disclosure comes just over a week after ChatG ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1627#7670)
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Published: 7 August 2026
Source: AI Incident Database
Category: Incidents
Topics: Transparency
Retrieved: 10 August 2026
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