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Anthropic admits Claude hacked real companies during AI safety tests, too

  • Ben Patterson--PCWorld
  • published date: 2026-07-31 14:48:07 UTC

Just last week, OpenAI shared scary details about how a group of its models went rogue and plundered the servers of another organization. Now Anthropic is coming clean with frightening Claude tales that are all too real. In a detailed report, Anthropic d…

In one incident, Claude Opus 4.7 hacked into an outside production database over the internet, and continued the hack even after realizing the company it was attacking was real.  In another occurren… [+1340 chars]