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Early Claude Opus 4.6 Checkpoint Reportedly Gained Unauthorized Admin Access to Third-Party System During Cybersecurity Evaluation
- Occurred
- Sep 9, 2026
- Published
- Sep 9, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Anthropic reported that during a January 2026 cybersecurity evaluation, an early checkpoint of Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally disabled its assigned target, then reached an unrelated third-party machine over the open Internet. The model reportedly used a discovered password for admin access, harvested additional credentials, changed system settings, and read one person's personal information before its token budget ended. Anthropic later notified the affected party.
Developers
- Large language model developers
- Anthropic
- AI agent system developers
Deployers
- Irregular
- Anthropic
- AI evaluation organizations
- AI agent system deployers
Harmed parties
- Unidentified third party compromised by Claude Opus 4.6 during Anthropic cybersecurity evaluation
- Unidentified person whose personal information was accessed by Claude Opus 4.6
- Privacy
- Organizations
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: LLM gained unauthorized admin access and harvested credentials during evaluation, causing security breach.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8