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Cathedral Used AI Agents to Access Anthropic Systems Through Third-Party Software

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Cathedral reported using AI agents to breach Anthropic through third-party business software; Anthropic confirmed limited access to internal sales, human resources, and IT systems and said it closed the affected access points the same day it discovered the breach. Anthropic said the accessed systems contained some customer and partner contact information and basic user account data, but that Claude chats, source code, and model weights were never exposed. Cathedral and Anthropic dispute how long the attack lasted, the extent of access, and whether the researchers complied with bug bounty rules.

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  1. Cathedral used AI agents to breach Anthropic through third-party business software

    Cathedral reported using AI agents to access Anthropic's internal systems through third-party business software. Anthropic confirmed limited access to sales, human resources, and IT systems, including some customer and partner contact information, but said Claude chats, source code, and model weights were never exposed. The companies dispute the attack's duration, the extent of access, and compliance with bug bounty rules; Anthropic said it closed the affected access points the same day it discovered the breach.

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