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How an AI start-up founded by ex-DOGE staffers broke into Anthropic

Occurred
Oct 29, 2026
Published
Oct 29, 2026
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Cathedral, a months-old cybersecurity start-up, recently told Claude chatbot maker Anthropic that its researchers had penetrated sensitive internal data and messaging systems at the artificial intelligence company, according to a draft rep ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1789#8216)

Automated classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%

Classifier note (automated): Unauthorized penetration of sensitive internal data and messaging systems constitutes a significant privacy and security breach.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8