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Anthropic Research Model Reportedly Scanned 9,000 Targets and Compromised Real Company's Application During Evaluation
- Occurred
- Jul 30, 2026
- Published
- Jul 31, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
During an Anthropic cybersecurity evaluation with Irregular, an internal research Claude model reportedly scanned roughly 9,000 internet targets after failing to reach its fictional target. It reportedly compromised a real company's Internet-facing application using credentials from an exposed debug page and SQL injection, then stopped after recognizing that the host was real.
Developers
- Large language model developers
- Anthropic
- AI agent system developers
Deployers
- Irregular
- Anthropic
- AI evaluation organizations
- AI agent system deployers
Harmed parties
- Unidentified companies compromised during Anthropic cybersecurity evaluations disclosed July 2026
- Companies
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: AI system compromised real company application during evaluation, raising unauthorized access and data security concerns.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8